In a widely shared story last week, The Economist likened the political carnage in Britain to the situation in Italy in the 1940s. Italy was a major theatre of the First World War at the end of which the country was in ruins. It is so unstable that in spite of the tenuous hold of the Christian Democrats on power for much …

Rishi Sunak has emerged the new Leader of the United Kingdom’s Conservative Party. Forty-two years old last 12th May, the incoming Prime Minister will replace Liz Truss, who resigned last Thursday as UK prime minister after 44 days in office, and become the UK’s first British Asian PM. Nearly 200 Conservative MPs publicly backed the former Chancellor ahead of the nomination …