U.K. clown car

Britain, and particularly the Conservative Party, now resembles a circus clown car whose tightly packed riders keep tumbling out, falling over, quarrelling, setting off pointless fireworks, climbing back in, and doing it all over again.

The latest Tory prime minister, Liz Truss, is likely to be overthrown by her party’s own rebellious Members of Parliament by the end of this month, writes Gwynne Dyer.No. 10 Downing Street photograph courtesy of Simon Dawson

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

October 17, 2022

LONDON, U.K.—Italy is getting nervous. The United Kingdom’s Conservative Party (a.k.a. the Tories) has now been led by four different prime ministers in only six years. Italy still holds the long-term record—a new government every 13 months since 1945—but Britain is now nipping at its heels....

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