The West staring down last-minute enormous changes

Three of the four biggest western countries are facing elections that may radically change their political orientations.

The only question for U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives is whether this election will be merely a catastrophe, or a full-scale extinction event from which there is no return, writes Gwynne Dyer. No. 10 Downing Street photograph by Simon Walker

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

July 3, 2024

LONDON, U.K.—By July 5, we will know the outcome of the United Kingdom election. On July 8, we will know the result of the French election. And by the middle of the month, it will be clear whether Joe Biden remains the Democratic presidential candidate in the United States...

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