Rishi Sunak has been made Prime Minister without the vote of a single member of parliament. The system was that members of parliament were going to have to choose who would be the new replacement leader and therefore automatically the prime minister under our system. Boris Johnson had to clear this hurdle of 100 members of parliament had to say we will nominate him even before a contest could happen. And so all eyes were on Boris Johnson, as you say, he's been on vacation more or less since he quit in July.
Today, we’re sharing a bonus episode of Kara’s Twitter Spaces conversation recorded on Monday night. In the first part of the conversation, Kara talks to Jonathan Freedland, a British journalist and columnist for The Guardian, about the fall of Liz Truss, the rise of Rishi Sunak and the role of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire in U.K. politics.
In the second part of the episode, Kara and Freedland are joined by yet another Jonathan: Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League. The trio discusses the rise of populism and hate speech today. They cover Kanye West’s antisemitic remarks on social media and discuss Freedland’s — aka British Jonathan’s — new book, “The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World.”
Follow us on Twitter @karaswisher and @nayeema to tune in for future Spaces.
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