Corbyn clinches UK unpopularity contest
The ABC of British politics in recent weeks has been Anyone But Corbyn – but Boris played a better game
The United Kingdom looks a little diminished this week. Not because its people have — for the second time in three years — given its ruling class a mandate to exit the best peace treaty Europe has ever enjoyed, but because of the palpable sense of exhaustion that hangs over the country, like smoke after the Great Fire of London.
No-one called the election like it happened. After all the gaffes, missteps and whiffs of scandal that seem to follow Boris Johnson around, it looked as if things could go either way. Sure, hell would freeze over before Labour sent the PM packing. But a coalition government with the Liberal Democrats and Scottish National Party? Anyone?..
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