The Brits find themselves in need of a new head of government and a new head of state without a worked-out plan for either.
So much for the long-held conceit that two centuries of experience balancing a parliamentary democracy with a constitutional monarchy would always guarantee seamless transitions of power.
What goes on in those audiences is never recorded, and prime ministers have always been silent on their experiences. The queen is constitutionally stripped of any power to sway a policy, however strongly she may object to it. The one time she apparently made it clear that she was at odds with a prime minister was when Margaret Thatcher slow-walked applying pressure on the white South African government to end apartheid.
The only time the queen was accused of allowing herself to be implicated in the choice of a new prime minister was in 1963. Harold Macmillan, the Tory prime minister, resigned because of failing health. In an unprecedented move, the queen visited Macmillan in hospital to receive his recommendation for his successor. The two of them were left alone for half an hour and no record was made of what was said.
There will be many contenders. The 358 Tory members of parliament hold a series of secret ballots until the list is culled to the final two. Those names go to around 200,000 grassroots party members to choose the winner—which means that the new prime minister will have been chosen by 0.29 percent of the population.Johnson leaves his party so crushed and demeaned by serving his all-consuming ego that finding vertebrates among the candidates is hard.
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