How U.S., U.K. punish their leaders in different ways
by Ned Temko
Jun 09, 2022
3 minutes
The parallels are powerful: on one side of the Atlantic, former U.S. President Donald Trump; on the other, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson – flamboyantly norm-busting politicians, both, who have sorely tested the resilience of the Western world’s two oldest democracies.
But events this week in London, where Mr. Johnson only narrowly survived a no-confidence vote by his own Conservative Party colleagues in Parliament, have highlighted key in how each country has responded to charismatic leaders flouting long-established safeguards in
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