NYTIMES PARTY QUIZ FULL
This “lovable buffoon,” as he’s called now by journalists and politicos as well as former Labour voters turning Tory in focus groups in the Midlands, has skillfully maneuvered toward a full term as prime minister and perhaps toward an era in British politics when the Conservative Party is defined less by Thatcherism than Borisism. to become not more ideological in a tumultuous era of uncorked populism but less so.
to change (if somewhat marginally) a final deal it long said was absolutely nonnegotiable and for seeing an opportunity that others didn’t - in the U.K., across Europe, and in the U.S. But he deserves credit for getting the E.U. In the politics of this, he has been helped by the British winner-takes-all electoral system by a very unpopular Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn and by an opposition split down the middle on Brexit. But here we are, with Boris having budged it. demanded and the British Parliament could support seemed irreconcilable, and no single resolution to the Brexit referendum had enough support to budge the country’s politics out of a maddening stall. Not so long ago, this Brexit scenario seemed inconceivable: What the E.U. Just over four months into office as PM, he appears poised to win an election he called and, if the polls are anywhere near correct, score a clear victory and take Britain out of the E.U. And more than that: This comic figure has somehow managed to find himself at the center of the populist storms sweeping Britain and the West - first by becoming the most senior politician in Britain to back Brexit in 2016, and now by plotting a course that might actually bring the United Kingdom out of the epic, years-long, once-impossible-looking mess he helped make.
NYTIMES PARTY QUIZ ZIP
Then there are those photo-op moments in his long career that seem designed to make him look supremely silly - stuck dangling in midair on a zip line with little Union Jacks waving in his hands rugby-tackling a 10-year-old in Japan playing tug-of-war in a publicity stunt and collapsing, suited, onto the grass or declaring at one point that he was more likely to be “reincarnated as an olive,” “locked in a disused fridge,” or “decapitated by a flying Frisbee” than to become prime minister.Īnd yet he has. Just look at him: a chubby, permanently disheveled toff with an accent that comes off as a parody of an upper-class twit, topped off by that trademark mop of silver-blond hair he deliberately musses up before venturing into the public eye. It’s hard to take the British prime minister, Boris Johnson, completely seriously.
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