Hewson's View: Political messes around the world

By John Hewson
Updated July 2 2021 - 3:16am, first published December 13 2018 - 7:00pm
Still leader: Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May delivers a speech outside 10 Downing Street in London on Wednesday after surviving a no-confidence vote by Tory MPs. Photo: Matt Dunham
Still leader: Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May delivers a speech outside 10 Downing Street in London on Wednesday after surviving a no-confidence vote by Tory MPs. Photo: Matt Dunham

Politics in several major countries has become even messier with crises in the UK over May’s handling of Brexit, in France with Macron versus the gilets jaunes movement, in Germany with the transition from Merkel probably to Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, and, of course, in the US, where Trump continues to disrupt, rather than govern, mostly out of control, without consistent direction.

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