The Brexit vote aftermath, explained: a wild week in UK politics

From Labour infighting to the end of Boris Johnson, the shocking EU referendum result set into motion a series of events that no one could have predicted

Discussing the drama of Britain’s ground-shifting vote to withdraw from the European Union on National Public Radio this week, a Washington interviewer reminded his American listeners that the popular Machiavellian TV series House of Cards was originally set in Westminster, seat of the British parliament. It was even written by a Conservative party apparatchik whose real-life successors have rapidly outstripped his fiction.

“We always thought your West Wing was a bit idealistic,” NPR’s on-air guest in London interjected.

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