The British ambassador's resignation has cast a pall over the already humiliating contest to determine who will succeed Theresa May as Trump’s whipping boy
Darroch’s resignation is, in a way, the perfect metaphor for the perversion of the “special relationship” in the Trump era. The great irony is that Brexit, marketed as a way for Britons to “take back control” from the E.U., is tilting the U.K. toward a new state of vassalage. Instead of the muscular, sovereign Britain that was promised, the U.K. of Boris Johnson appears to be drifting further into Trump’s orbit, sacrificing its diplomats to propitiate a much-needed trading partner.
Tuesday’s debate also highlighted the increasingly imbecilic quality of British politics as a whole. As they sparred, Hunt and Johnson didn’t just lock horns over diplomatic cables—they fired shots over Brexit, with Johnson insisting he would bring the U.K. out of the E.U. with or without a deal on October 31, and vowing to pluck the country off Brexit’s “hamster wheel of doom.” Strikingly absent, as ever, was a cogent plan for breaking the ongoing deadlock.
Here, Hunt captured what is at the heart of Britain’s leadership debate, and what lost Darroch his job. The problem is that the appeal of a decent personality has been subsumed by the cult of a strong, and slippery, personality. Like Trump, BoJo has packaged his elitist credentials in anti-establishment bluster, without relinquishing any power. And, like Trump, he is a
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