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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