Boris Johnson attempts to get his government back under control
The prime minister’s new chief of staff has an unenviable task
STEVE BARCLAY is making a career out of mopping up stricken governments’ messes. In November 2018 Theresa May appointed him as her third Brexit secretary in just over two years. Now he faces a similarly joyless task for a similarly ailing administration. On February 5th he was appointed Boris Johnson’s fourth chief of staff in a year and a half, charged with bringing order to a disorderly Downing Street.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Taming the circus”
Britain February 12th 2022
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- Northern Irish devolution collapses—again
- Britain’s cost-of-living squeeze in four charts
- Boris Johnson attempts to get his government back under control
- British regulators have approved a Chinese reactor design
- Unless lawyers are paid better, courts will grind to a halt
- The rise of unpopulism
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