We reached out to tom mc tage at the beginning of the year, when no one quite knew if borris johnson would last another day or another week in office. Here's what he had to say then: "The same kind of agent of chaos just kept whirling in ten downing street, causing scandal after scandal after scandal" And eventually it was just too much, and the conservative members of parliament decided to get rid of him. That's boris johnson in a nutshell, an agent of chaos that span out of control.
Britain’s Conservative party is spending the summer choosing its next prime minister. The Atlantic’s Tom McTague introduces the candidates vying to replace him.
This episode was produced by Miles Bryan with help from Victoria Dominguez, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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