UK: Need leader or new perspective?

The candidates for the Conservative nomination at the last debate (PA MEDIA)

Six years ago, former Prime Minister David Cameron brought the idea of “Brexit” to the European Union in his attempt to impose UK supremacy on the EU after the signing of the Lisbon Treaty. UK was looking for more freedom in matters of immigration, welfare payments, financial safeguards, and the easiest ways to block EU regulations.

However, Mr. Cameron’s expectations about breaking with the EU went out of control. He created this ideal picture of a prosperous and powerful United Kingdom, ruling with its policies, laws, governments, and courts. And this set the mind of many British, who were struggling with income and State help.

Within those days in 2016, among many politicians who supported Brexit, Boris Johnson was the co-leader of the campaign to take the United Kingdom out of the EU.

After losing the referendum, Mr. Cameron stepped aside in 2016, and Theresa May took the lead not only for the Conservatives but for the whole British nation, which was about to face a veritable break up at national and international levels.

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How the Coronavirus has changed and will change the international society

Jess Baddams, paramedic, holds a blood sample as she poses for a photograph during an antibody testing program at the Hollymore Ambulance Hub, in Birmingham, England, on Friday, June 5, 2020. Making antibody tests widely available may help Britain lift its lockdown restrictions, because they show who has already had the COVID-19 and might have a degree of immunity from coronavirus. (Simon Dawson/Pool via AP)

Three months ago, humanity was worried about everything but not about a virus called Covid-19, or as it is known socially the Coronavirus.  The events that marked the global agenda 90 days ago were overshadowed after its appearance. 

In one hand, the Americans were beholding the way the former vice-president, Joe Biden, the progressist senator, Bernie Sanders, and the senator for Massachusetts, Elizabeth Warren, from the same left-wing that his collague, were fighting to get the nomination and to face President Trump in the next elections late this year. In the other hand, the Europeans were dealing with the divorce between EU and Uk after more than three years of negotiations, and at the same time, they were looking for a new identity by the hand of the new president of the European Commission, Ursula Von der Leyen, to address and reduce the increasing nationalist movements that were threatening get Europe broken in many pieces. At the same time, Middle East was waiting for Netanyahu’s plan to annex the West Bank, waving the anger of all the Muslim countries that surround the Jewish State. And last, but not least, Xi Jinping pursued to bring down the Hong Kong autonomy, including the idea of “one country, two systems”, (which nowadays it was achieved due to the new law that permits to extradite people from the Special Administrative Region to Bejing to stand trial by any action that is against the Government), to take full control of China and to establish the communists, and moreover, to hide and minimize what it was going on in Wuhan. 

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