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Six years ago, Boris Johnson was not the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. His ambition to change that fact was an open secret, but any route to doing so would pit him against the incumbentnd quintessentially British character whilst Mayor of London
When the time came for the 2015 General Election – with a referendum on Britain’s EU membership in his party’s manifesto – Johnson arranged his return to the House of Commons as an MP.
In the meantime, Cameron had become a leader addicted to trying his luck. In 2011 he had pulled the rug out from underneath his junior coalition partners, the Liberal Democrats, with a crushing win in a referendum on electoral reform. Three years later, he called the bluff of Scottish
“We have, quite simply, a once-in-a-lifetime chance to take back control of our country.”
Perhaps that was why the Conservative leader agreed to the demands of his right-wing backbenchers and legislated for a referendum on an idea he personally opposed: The notion of Britain leaving the European Union. But on this occasion, for the first, only, and last time, David Cameron would open Pandora’s box. The forces he unleashed would go on to escape his control, revolutionise British politics, reshape the European Union, destroy his political career, and define his legacy.
When the time came for the 2015 General Election – with a referendum on Britain’s EU membership in his party’s manifesto – Johnson arranged his return to the House of Commons as an MP. From there, the world knew that he aimed to plot his move from MP to PM. And, just months later, he believed he saw that ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ opportunity to do so.
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Part One: Coalitions of Chaos
Perhaps that was why the Conservative leader agreed to the demands of his right-wing backbenchers and legislated for a referendum on an idea he personally opposed: The notion of Britain leaving the European Union. But on this occasion, for the first, only, and last time, David Cameron would open Pandora’s box. The forces he unleashed would go on to escape his control, revolutionise British politics, reshape the European Union, destroy his political career, and define his legacy.
When the time came for the 2015 General Election – with a referendum on Britain’s EU membership in his party’s manifesto – Johnson arranged his return to the House of Commons as an MP. In the meantime, Cameron had become a leader addicted to trying his luck. In 2011 he had pulled the rug out from underneath his junior coalition partners, the Liberal Democrats, with a crushing win in a referendum on electoral reform. Three years later, he called the bluff of Scottish
In the meantime, Cameron had become a leader addicted to trying his luck. In 2011 he had pulled the rug out from underneath his junior coalition partners, the Liberal Democrats, with a crushing win in a referendum on electoral reform. Three years later, he called the bluff of Scottish Nationalists by arranging, then winning, another referendum on Scottish independence. And then, in the 2015 general election, he performed perhaps his greatest magic trick by conjuring a Conservative majority against the forecast of virtually every poll and pundit. Having won so many bets in a row, Cameron had become a gambler who felt invincible.
When the time came for the 2015 General Election
Perhaps that was why the Conservative leader agreed to the demands of his right-wing backbenchers and legislated for a referendum on an idea he personally opposed: The notion of Britain leaving the European Union. But on this occasion, for the first, only, and last time, David Cameron would open Pandora’s box. The forces he unleashed would go on to escape his control, revolutionise British politics, reshape the European Union, destroy his political career, and define his legacy.
When the time came for the 2015 General Election – with a referendum on Britain’s EU membership in his party’s manifesto – Johnson arranged his return to the House of Commons as an MP. From there, the world knew that he aimed to plot his move from MP to PM. And, just months later, he believed he saw that ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ opportunity to do so.
