Britain’s New Leader Faces a Tough Winter
Rishi Sunak’s “instincts are going to collide with reality,” Helen Lewis says. “There is no appetite among British voters for low-tax libertarianism.”
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This week, Rishi Sunak was officially installed as the prime minister of Great Britain. I spoke with Atlantic writer Helen Lewis about the U.K.’s topsy-turvy political moment and her essay on Sunak as the face of Britain’s “new ruling class.”
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A New Ruling Class
Much has been made of Rishi Sunak’s ethnic identity; he’s
