ICYMI - Rex Murphy: Sadly, Great Britain is no longer great. Just very silly
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On Sunday, Boris Johnson pulled out of the race to become prime minister , following the humiliating departure of Liz Truss, who had replaced him in that once great office following his humiliating departure just 45 days earlier. The leadership of Great Britain has all the majesty of a TV game show.Rex Murphy: Queen Elizabeth II was an anchor in an angry and unsettled era
A great G-7 country, in a time of turmoil, inflation, an energy crisis and a war, plays spin-the-bottle for its most powerful office. Accompanied by the truly frightening spectacle over on this side of the Atlantic of an American president of dubious competence and faltering memory who may have fallen asleep during a recent live interview.Article content