Analysis: The right-wing populist shocks that hit both Britain and the United States in 2016 have exacerbated the internal dysfunctions within both countries’ right-wing parties.
Divisions within the Tory majority over the terms of divorce with Europe convulsed politics in Westminster for years; the factional infighting that followed, to varying extents, cut short the tenures of three successive Conservative prime ministers.by thousands of his supporters two years ago.
That prefigured the havoc of the past week, where a crop of far-right lawmakers in the House, some steeped in Trump’s election denialism, stalled the confirmation process for new House speaker Kevin McCarthy . He needed 15 rounds of votes to secure a post that was supposed to be a formality because of the Republicans’ slender new majority in the lower chamber of Congress.
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