Interesting piece in the Guardian today on Danish politics from Rune Lykkeberg. It nails elite populism. There are lessons here for Labour’s centre-right leadership here in the UK.

Denmark’s unique political model is in crisis – I blame the boomerang effect

What they were doing was populism for the elites that substituted the legitimate ideological conflict between left and right with an imagined picture of reasonable grownups in the centre and the ridiculous children on the extremes