Brexit, a sign of anti-elite revolt: analysts

June 25, 2016 15:09

It was Britain's poorer and less-educated citizens -- angry at not having shared in the economic benefits of a new world order -- who pushed it out of the European Union, in a vote that threatens elites, analysts

say.

They are those who suffered the worst hangover from the economic crisis, and whose precarious economic position makes them most fearful of rising immigration -- to the benefit of far right groups in the EU and Donald Trump in the United States.

"I see the same pattern everywhere I look," said William Galston, a senior fellow at the US-based Brookings Institution.

"The demographic splits within the UK are exactly the same category for category as the demographic splits within the American electorate in this presidential election."

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