https://www.wsj.com/articles/britains-election-stakes-11575841904?mod=opinion_lead_pos1
Britons head to the polls Thursday for their most consequential general election since the 1970s. As with the 1979 vote that brought Margaret Thatcher to power, the outcome will shape Britain for a generation.
First and foremost, this is a Brexit election. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is campaigning to restore democratic legitimacy after Parliament has spent three years trying to thwart voters’ 2016 decision to leave the European Union. He is asking the electorate to give him a majority to pass his divorce deal, which despite its flaws remains the best chance to deliver Brexit and liberate Britain to enter a new era.
Opinion polls suggest voters are giving Mr. Johnson credit for his Brexit leadership. He has won the blessing of Nigel Farage, whose Brexit Party isn’t running against Tories in many seats in order to avoid splitting the Leave vote. Mr. Johnson’s opponents have helped him, too, as Remain politicians struggle to explain why voters should revise their 2016 verdict.
This means that, unlike his hapless predecessor Theresa May, Mr. Johnson is finally giving voters a real choice: a plan that delivers Brexit, or a crop of muddled centrists and wet former Tories who won’t.
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