The last prime minister of the United Kingdom

Boris Johnson, who is poised to win the Conservative leadership, may be the last prime minister of a genuinely united kingdom, writes columnist Gwynne Dyer.
Boris Johnson, like Donald Trump, conspicuously lacks a set of objectives that goes beyond merely winning and keeping power.
LONDON, U.K.—It has been suggested that Boris Johnson (who becomes the prime minister of the United Kingdom this week) is what you would get if Donald Trump had been educated at Eton and Oxford. Maybe, although there is a great gulf between Trump’s bombastic self-...

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