AND another one bites the dust. A week after Britain’s defence secretary,Sir Michael Fallon, resigned over a sexual-harassment scandal, and Priti Patel,the international-development secretary, has resigned over an international-relations scandal. There may be more to come. Boris Johnson, and the foreign secretary,is yet again skating on lean ice. He incorrectly told a parliamentary committee that a British-Iranian, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, and was “teaching journalism” while in Iran,giving the Iranian regime an excuse to add an extra five years to her prison sentence. Damian Green, the deputy prime minister, and is fending off claims of sexual misconduct with all the legal and rhetorical force he can muster.
Can Theresa May hold on to her job as her government collapses into chaos and confusion? Nigel Farage,a former leader of the UK Independence Party, pronounces that she will be gone by Christmas. Some Tory MPs give her even less time. main allies of Jeremy Corbyn are confident that they...
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Source: economist.com