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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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The Man Had to Go. The Lesson That We Should Draw From This Period in Office

We should have found that he was the prime minister who reached parts of the country that nobody else could. But when stories like party gate came to light, it was those people whom he'd entertained before,. where he did become a toxic brand. And all i'm really saying here, the man had to go. I'm not defending him. All i am saying is that we need to draw the right lessons from this period in office.

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