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The Conservative Party keeps waiting for Boris Johnson to improve
It will be waiting for a long time
“NOTHING HAPPENS, nobody comes, nobody goes, it’s awful!” Estragon, a character in Samuel Beckett’s play “Waiting for Godot”, is not a Conservative MP. But he has the same view of the world.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Waiting for Boris”
Britain April 16th 2022
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