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“Most dictatorships have a better way of choosing their leader than this one.”
On Boris Johnson, Clarke is withering in a way that borders on contempt.
On Boris Johnson, Clarke is withering in a way that borders on contempt.
Seeing his legacy of 5 decades left in ruins
“He is also dismayed by the way the Tory party is going about choosing its new leader and the country’s next prime minister. “There’s an air of fantasy about just about every candidate’s campaign,” he says.
“He is also dismayed by the way the Tory party is going about choosing its new leader and the country’s next prime minister. “There’s an air of fantasy about just about every candidate’s campaign,” he says.
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He reflects “with promises being made on Brexit that cannot be met. And the way the eventual decision will be handed over to the Tory membership, he finds simply “extraordinary”.
He reflects “with promises being made on Brexit that cannot be met. And the way the eventual decision will be handed over to the Tory membership, he finds simply “extraordinary”.
4/. “Clarke, by contrast, (to other politicians) no longer has ambitions to fulfil nor does he feel he has to answer to his local party. He says precisely what he thinks. And much of what he says resonates very widely with the public,”
