Boris Johnson loses his grip
The prime minister’s poor management of the covid crisis is undermining his ability to govern
BRITAIN’S CHAOTIC departure from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism on “Black Wednesday” in 1992 destroyed John Major’s premiership and condemned the country to five years of agony, as the Tory government stumbled from crisis to crisis. The coronavirus debacle now threatens to do the same to Boris Johnson. He has a bigger majority than Sir John (87 compared with 23) and is more loved by Tories. But the corona crisis is much bigger than the ERM episode and will be harder to escape from.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Losing his grip”
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