BoJo takes it on the chin

With the worst of the epidemic and the potential economic disaster of Brexit ahead, Britons can only hope that PM Johnson can trade his populist mentality for something approaching constructive statesmanship.

In an Easter Sunday video, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson thanked his country’s health service for steering him through his own bout with COVID-19. Screenshot courtesy of Boris Johnson’s Facebook

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

April 15, 2020

OTTAWA—Well, at least he didn’t die. At least Boris Johnson didn’t leave the United Kingdom leaderless at a moment when the U.K. is facing its greatest pre-COVID-19 challenge in a half a century with the Brexit process he did more than anyone to set in motion. The prime minister survived the...

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