Right now, Sir Keir Starmer is a highly significant individual. He’s the leader of the opposition in the UK. He’s the leader of the country’s Labour Party. And importantly, he has a very high likelihood of becoming Britain’s prime minister in less than a year.
In a bid to project an image of a resolute decision-maker and a catalyst for change, Mr Sunak made the surprising announcement during the Conservative Party’s annual conference at Manchester of cancelling a high-speed rail project to that city itself.
Ajit Pawar became deputy chief minister, and a handful of MLAs who defected with him were given ministerial posts. The venal move is presumably aimed at foiling opposition unity.
The essential unity of American military, economic, and Cold War policies was increasingly revealed by the sordidness and cruelty of the Vietnam War. Russell thus repeatedly warned the developing nations against the impending danger of developed nations' economic and strategic policies, and how they exploited developing nations for their own development, leaving behind depleted soils, worked-out mines, ravaged forests, and a trail of ecological destruction
In politics, self-sabotaging acts are so common that they rarely surprise veteran observers. At the bitter root of most shoot-oneself-in-the-foot idiocies is stubborn blindness occurring when a leadership asserts its self-preservation over the good of Party members.
Johnson insists a trade deal with the EU can be in place by the end of the transition period, but critics say this timescale is unrealistic.
Earlier on Monday, PM Johnson spoke to US President Donald Trump in a telephonic conversation and discussed bilateral ties.
However, things are not going to be so easy for Mr. Johnson and the Brexiteers, and UK might be heading towards a hung parliament – courtesy the extensive exercise of ‘tactical voting’ which becomes instrumental for one in four voters of the UK to vote in favour of some party which is not their first choice.
Johnson was expected to announce a minor re-shuffle possibly as early as December 16.
PM Johnson has said that, if he retains power, he will deliver Brexit by Jan. 31 - after nearly four years of political crisis following a 2016 referendum in which Britons voted to leave the European Union.
