Snap out of it: hair-trigger elections won’t save you

Strategy can’t outplay the public’s deeply entrenched, times-up temperament.

Canadian political parties will find different lessons in the campaigns led by U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, left, and French President Emmanuel Macron, writes Tim Powers. 10 Downing Street photograph by Simon Dawson and The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY TIM POWERS

July 10, 2024

OTTAWA—The snap elections in Britain and France are now done. The results may be surprising to only the incumbent governments who called them, as both the United Kingdom Conservatives and French President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist alliance no longer hold power in their ...

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