WHENEVER it has been confronted with crisis in the past, Britain has summoned up leaders worthy of the challenge. Yet today it faces the crisis of Brexit without any leaders who deserve the name. Theresa May has dithered where she should have been decisive and been decisive where she should have dithered. Jeremy Corbyn has been on the wrong side of most of the serious arguments in post-war history. As for Boris Johnson, the man most likely to try to unseat the prime minister before the next election, he is regarded by his friends and enemies alike as shallow, showboating and self-serving.
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