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Them’s the Breaks: Boris Johnson’s Resignation and Britain’s Political Crisis, with Jonathan Freedland, Simon Jenkins and Manveen Rana

Intelligence Squared

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Is There a Leadership Vacuum in the Autumn?

i'm persuaded by this view that we haven't really had a government for quite a long time. That boris johnson was really a permanent, permanently an election mode. And therefore the actual business of governing, the sort of dull business of competent governing, i don't think realy was happening. I find it hard to think of some very specific, tangible thing he would try and do. Oydont know what he might, you never knows what he might try and do - but put it past him,. The one person w i probably could have lived with as a conservative prime minister is rorey stuart. If they have a leader who isn't part of the brexit wars

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