The United Kingdom's armed prime minister, operating his statement years after senior political party partners caused him to leave, could perform NATO if his remaining followers are to be believed. Boris Johnson, who will depart Downing Street on Sept 6 after the Conservative Party's 170,000 rank-and-file partners have chosen an inheritor, has been dogged by humiliation in recent months and appears an improbable future secretary-general of the Western safety partnership, given that victorious applicants are usually untainted by discussion and advocated unanimously by the institution's 30 member states. The Telegraph newspaper, which operated Johnson as a columnist, said he "is being trumpeted as a contender" to substitute Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, who is assigned to stand dow
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Watch Out For Boris: Change In UK’s Leadership Has No Bearing On International Politics
Following a slew of controversies, Boris' own party eventually decided it had had enough of all the loud theatre and decided to skip the performance. Boris Johnson stepped down as thr Prime Minister of the UK and leader of the Conservative Party yesterday, following in the footsteps of many other prominent cabinet members who had already quit. His party will now vote for a new leader, and the country will perhaps look forward to more policy stability about important problems. A change in leadership in the United Kingdom, however, is both interesting and of little relevance given the country's little impact on the political landscape of the rest of the world. It is a fascinating morality tale that has ramifications for other democracies to see how a leader who led his party to its...
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