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Boris exit must be a reset for the right
The global right has been seduced by the fool’s gold of populist leaders. The British PM’s resignation is a chance to focus on long-term economic revival with a clear ideological purpose.
Shamit SaggarPolicy expertThe curtains have come down on Boris Johnson’s chaotic tenure as British prime minister. In the past month, he has scraped the endorsement of his parliamentary colleagues, catastrophically lost two byelections, and now been blindsided by two very senior cabinet walkouts and fired another, along with more than 50 junior resignations.
“He has neither the character nor the temperament to be our prime minister”, concluded Andrew Mitchell, a party grandee-in-chief, neatly summarising middle opinion in the rebellion among his own troops.
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