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    A Tall Order

    Jan 02, 2020 4 minutes
     By Kerry Brown
    Copyedited by Sudeshna Sarkar

    The author is an op-ed contributor to Beijing Review and director of the Lau China Institute at King’s College London

    Despite expectations of a far closer outcome, the UK general election on December 12, 2019 resulted in a clear victory for the Conservative Party under Boris Johnson. It continues its history as the most successful electoral force in modern European history. Despite the doomsayers, Johnson now has a clear majority and has already flexed his muscle by passing the legislation to take the UK out of the EU on January 31. Barring complete disaster for him and his government, this will now happen.

    For the night on which this will formally occur, approval has already been given

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