Be brave and call an election

Eight prime ministers from the past 26 years line up at the Cenotaph last week.
photo: alamy/pa, yui mok

While the real world is being shaken by war, the UK’s domestic politics, with its rapidly shifting cast of shifty-looking characters, revelations of backroom plots, lockdown chaos, sexual impropriety and financial wrongdoing, has descended into a pantomime.

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