London | In a hasty cabinet meeting on Wednesday (Thursday AEDT), British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told his ministers that Britain was like the Tim Robbins character in the '90s movie The Shawshank Redemption.
In the film's memorable escape sequence, Robbins engineers an unlikely route out of his prison cell, then crawls through a sewer that Morgan Freeman's narration describes as "500 yards of shit-smelling foulness I can't even imagine".
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Hans van Leeuwen covers British and European politics, economics and business from London. He has worked as a reporter, editor and policy adviser in Sydney, Canberra, Hanoi and London. Connect with Hans on Twitter. Email Hans at hans.vanleeuwen@afr.com
