“Truss is a very worthy successor of Boris Johnson.
Johnson never believed the Brexit story either - he just realised that he could hitch a ride on a rocket ship fuelled by English nationalism and fantasies of liberation.
And this, then, makes it a hat trick.
Since the Brexit referendum of 2016, Britain has had three leaders; the remainer Theresa May, the cynical opportunist Johnson and now the zealous convert Truss.
None of them really, truly believed that Britain was being oppressed and held back by the EU. But each of them, in order to attain power, has had to enact that pretence.
- Fintan O’Toole in The Irish Times yesterday.
2 comments:
The original article referred to May as a remainder, not a remainder.
To the anonymous reader, thank you for your correction and the error has been corrected. Unfortunately it is not possible for your error to be corrected.
It is a pity readers remain anonymous.
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