When Boris Johnson achieved his long-standing ambition of becoming prime minister in July 2019, he inherited a government in political disarray and without a parliamentary majority. His predecessor Theresa May had badly split Conservative MPs with her definition of Brexit, which had encouraged MPs to vote against the government in sufficient numbers to defeat Downing Street proposals.
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Rose, R. (2020). A New Prime Minister Meets Old Constraints. In Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics (pp. 209–224). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44117-3_12
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