The political chaos that has paralyzed the United Kingdom with the crippling of Theresa May’s Conservative government at the polls Thursday is an instructive illustration of the disruptive anxiety and exhaustion sweeping the West that Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland warned about in her address to the House of Commons this week.
A “hung Parliament” has left the Conservatives without a majority in Westminster, and without anything like the renewed mandate May had hoped the election would give her in the looming “Brexit” negotiations with the European Union, scheduled to begin in 10 days.
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Source: Ottawa Citizen
