Does Downing Street’s Revolving Door Prove Britain Is Ungovernable?
To lose six prime ministers within a decade, to borrow Wilde’s quip, ‘looks like carelessness.’
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STEPHEN MacLEAN
London, United Kingdom
Stephen MacLean is a Contributing Editor of The New York Sun.
Mr. MacLean, a Nova Scotian who has blogged under the rubric of the Disraeli-Macdonald Institute, is also the author of our Brexit Diary.
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