What, you ask of leaders, is leadership? That’s what you pay them to display. That’s why they are elected. A great demonstration of leadership was shown to me recently in the 2021 BBC documentary Blair & Brown: The New Labour Revolution, when Brown, after many leaderly reversals, grasped the reins of world financial leadership and saved the capitalist system. Even Obama had to admit that Brown was the boy.
Of course, even with leadership, you solve one problem but at times create others. The banks and investment system were saved and became largely a
