U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss’s abrupt resignation just weeks after taking power has thrown Britain into disarray again, rendering the United Kingdom an object of pity on the world stage.
“You don't want to see your friend in a mess,” one senior European official told the Washington Examiner Thursday. “You don't want to see your biggest ally in a domestic mess as well.”
Yet whoever wins the sprint into 10 Downing Street next week will have to make economic “decisions of eye-watering difficulty,” as U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt put it when he took over from Truss’s first finance chief. “Whoever the next leader is could possibly turn things around to scrape through before the next election,” the Hudson Institute’s Luke Coffey said. “In parliamentary democracy, you start to cycle through all the talent you have on your benches, and eventually, you become stagnated in your leadership and your policies because there is no fresh thinking. ... And then, over the course of 12 years being in government, you start to run out of talented people.
That lapse was a byproduct of former President Donald Trump’s skepticism of trade deals, despite his broader support for the Brexit effort. Sen. Chris Coons , a close ally of President Joe Biden, has co-authored a bipartisan proposal to launch free trade talks, but the initiative remains stymied by the Biden team’s wariness of free trade talks.
The perception that there is a shortage of politicians qualified to take over the top job is widespread in London. Some Conservative lawmakers are inclined to recycle Boris Johnson, who himself was only ousted in July and still has an investigation hanging over him into whether he lied to Parliament.
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