
The UK Election So Far: The Stakes, the Players, and, of Course, Nigel Farage
On May 22, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak stood outside 10 Downing Street in a downpour — gamely tempting Fleet Street headline wags to reference his failure to come in out of the rain — and called a general election for Thursday, July 4. This announcement took a lot of people, including, it appears, Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt...