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The Independent UK
David Maddox

What Piddington’s revolt says about the UK in 2026

When nationalist leaders in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland banded together earlier this week – demanding the independence of their various nations – Andy Burnham probably did not appreciate he would face a separatist vote just days later.

This vote, however, centres around somewhere entirely different altogether – the leafy Oxfordshire village of Piddington, in the heart of rural England.

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