The Sunak Sets over the British Empire

A moderate center-right leader wins big in Britain - thanks in no small part to a far-right party playing spoiler.

[I will not apologize for that headline, so don’t even bother asking.]

Canadian readers, stop me if you’ve heard this before: an historically unpopular center-right Tory government heads into an election under a hapless leader running a catastrophically poor campaign and finds that even its traditional support is being badly eroded by an upstart right-wi…