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Boris Johnson’s Crisis

Boris Johnson’s Crisis
British prime Minister Boris Johnson gives a press conference at 10 Downing Street on Dec. 8, 2021. Adrian Dennis -WPA Pool/Getty Images
Conrad Black
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The travails of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson are difficult for outsiders to appreciate. In the Brexit crisis, Johnson ended the greatest failure of British parliamentary government since the American Revolution, if not the English Civil War.

Conrad Black
Conrad Black
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Conrad Black has been one of Canada’s most prominent financiers for 40 years and was one of the leading newspaper publishers in the world. He’s the author of authoritative biographies of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Richard Nixon, and, most recently, “Donald J. Trump: A President Like No Other,” which has been republished in updated form. Follow Conrad Black with Bill Bennett and Victor Davis Hanson on their podcast Scholars and Sense.
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