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To paraphrase Churchill, whilst the decisive battle for Brexit may be over, another battle for Britain is about to begin. Johnson’s biggest challenge could well be Scotland. Johnson will also have to maintain ‘sound money’ and strike a balance between the many expensive promises he made during the election campaign whilst keeping Britain’s deficit and national debt under some form of control. Indeed, I can already see Michel Barnier talking of ‘complexity’ as a metaphor for the very hard trade deal the European Commission will seek to impose on Britain, with particular flash-points over Northern Ireland, Britain’s ongoing commitment to EU funding, and the access of EU-flagged trawlers to British waters. The defining word of 2020 will be ‘complex’. ‘Boris’ now faces pretty much the same set of issues, turbo-charged by the relative decline in British power and influence since the height of Churchill’s relatively brief but decisive moments in power.īrexit will now go ahead on 31 st January, 2020 in the form of the Withdrawal Agreement. Second, and equally, Churchill’s awareness that whilst Britain remained a very significant power its days as a truly global power were numbered, that Britain itself was undergoing profound change, and that if Britain was to continue to exert influence a new realism was needed. First, Churchill’s profound belief in Britain, the British people, and the role Britain could and must play in the world.
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In his 2014 book, The Churchill Factor, Johnson used the Great Man as a metaphor for his own political and strategic ambitions. What does Boris’s victory mean for Britain, and what are its strategic implications? Indeed, he is now the most dominant figure in British politics since Tony Blair or Margaret Thatcher. Johnson is justifiably triumphant this morning.
Conservative British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has inflicted the worst defeat on the Labour Party since 1935. It has been a long night, and I am pretty knackered. The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History, Boris JohnsonĪlphen, Netherlands, December 13. Across the globe – from Europe to Russia to Africa and the Middle East – we see traces of his shaping mind”. “…we need to remember the ways in which this British Prime Minister (Churchill) helped to make the world we still live in.