How Britain’s Conservative Party channels Milhouse from The Simpsons
Everything’s coming up Rishi!
Watching Rishi Sunak enjoy his best day as prime minister, it was impossible not to be reminded of the biggest loser in the western canon. As the Conservative leader talked mps through his renegotiation of the Northern Ireland Protocol, the spectre of Milhouse from “The Simpsons” loomed.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Everything’s coming up Rishi!”
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