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> assistant Editor of the Telegraph https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/24/boris-...

Max Hastings, his boss at the time doesn't have such a great opinion of Boris.

I would suggest as well that in more ordinary times, when the country has some decent leaders and is not so bitterly divided, he would have absolutely no chance of rising to the position he looks now likely to hold.

But these are very strange times, and "chaos is a ladder".

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Max Hastings may well have an axe to grind, no?

> so bitterly divided > very strange times

I'm not so sure we are as bitterly divided or that the times are as strange as we are led to believe, and I think both of above have been pushed hard by those that would seek to thwart Brexit: 'the country is so divided, we must compromise (BRINO) in order to heal these divisions!' and 'look at how broken our politics is, we must revoke Article 50 in order to safely navigate these perilous waters!'

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