EDITORIAL: Dogma overrides British common sense
Boris Johnson has shown a willingness to trash democratic and legal conventions and risk breaking up the UK itself
16 September 2019 - 05:04
Those who see the UK, at least in its postcolonial incarnation, as synonymous with common sense, will have been left shocked by the events of the past few weeks.
Which ones? one might ask. The country has moved so far off the script that it’s been impossible to keep up with the extraordinary events. It seems like a lifetime ago that Boris Johnson rose to the premiership, but it hasn’t been two months...
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