British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's expulsion of Conservative lawmakers who defied his will on Brexit was striking. Johnson's move was perhaps best exemplified by his dismissal of the grandson of his political hero, Winston Churchill. By TamerFakahany
British Conservative Party lawmaker Nicholas Soames leaves 10 Downing Street in London, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2019.
Johnson’s more brutal approach is perhaps best exemplified by his dismissal of Nicholas Soames, the grandson of Johnson’s political hero, Winston Churchill. Soames, and 20 other Conservative Party lawmakers, were summarily sacked Tuesday after they voted with opposition parties in a crucial Brexit vote.
Soames, the grandson of Britain’s cigar-chomping leader, called his axing after 37 years as a Conservative member of parliament the “fortunes of war” in a late night interview with the BBC. But in Britain, it’s also known as the night in 1962 when then Conservative Prime Minister Harold Macmillan ruthlessly culled his cabinet in an attempt to allay the drift within his government. It followed the salacious scandal the previous year that had brought down his Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, who was found to have had an extra-marital affair with a model who was also in a relationship with a Russian spy at the same time.
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