Keir Starmer’s final act was frozen in a collective paralysis. The inevitable outcome hung for months like a guillotine, shivering slowly on its way to the neck. In the end, it found its mark and Andy Burnham became Britain’s seventh prime minister in the decade since the Brexit vote. The self-harm that British voters inflicted on June 23, 2016 has gutted the country’s political class, stalled its economy and deepened societal divides. The relentless political chaos is matched only by the relentless self-serving egotism of Nigel Farage, who, after winning the recent Clacton by-election, said: “I am damned if I…

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