Aside from Brexit, what else will Boris Johnson’s government ‘get done’? Catherine Haddon
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The Conservative manifesto was remarkably light on detail, so Johnson might need to be flexible to keep his new MPs happy• Latest election news - live updates
Boris Johnson now has a bigger majority than any Conservative prime minister since Margaret Thatcher. He is not a new prime minister but he is, for the first time, an election-winning prime minister – and can govern accordingly.
For the first four months of his premiership Johnson was a man in a hurry, racing to get through the same stages of Brexit that Theresa May took three years to attempt. Like May, Johnson negotiated a deal with the EU. Like May, he failed in his attempts to get that deal through parliament. Unlike May, he used the ongoing challenge of parliamentary arithmetic to successfully persuade the electorate to hand him the majority he asked for to get Brexit done. Continue reading...
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