British Politics
Vincent Boland: This psychodrama is damaging everyone – we just want the old Britain back now
Only a general election can solve the national crisis that is destabilising the country and by extension Ireland and all of Europe
Britain is approaching a moment of reckoning. As the country braces itself for the imposition of a third prime minister in three months, it confronts a national crisis the like of which it has not endured since the Suez debacle of the 1950s.
This is an astonishing state of affairs for a country that likes to think of itself as a bastion of stability, moderate politics and everyday democracy. If the upheaval we have witnessed ...