Let’s start with the usual disclaimers. Neither Donald Trump nor Boris Johnson are ideal leaders or paragons of virtue. And they are no oil paintings either!
What the UK and the US currently have in common, however, is that the 2016 US election result and the 2016 UK referendum vote on Brexit are both unacceptable to the established forces that normally, whatever the results of particular elections, control the day-to-day administration of the UK and the US.
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