Britain’s prime minister becomes a rotten presidency
MPs alone, not party members, should choose the next prime minister
Boris johnson can claim to be Britain’s first president. The votes of 92,153 members of the Tory party, not those of its mps, put Mr Johnson in Downing Street in 2019. As the debate about his place in history starts, the fact that he was the first prime minister to be directly elected by voters, even if by only a handful of them, is barely mentioned.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “The rotten presidency”
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