Guardian Weekly

A CATALYST FOR CHANGE

he question of how British prime ministers should and shouldn’t behave after leaving office has recently become a hot one. Property magnate and policy guru Tony Blair has refused to step out of the limelight, though at least seems aware that he will never be thanked for it. Theresa May has cashed in, reportedly charging more than £100,000 ($140,000) for a speech: not bad for a woman who was said to read from a script during private one-to-one meetings. And, of course, there is David Cameron, harassing civil servants during the darkest days of April 2020, begging them to throw his failing venture a bone, with reports that he stood to

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