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[–] thehatfox@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

An unelected Prime Minister appointing an unelected Foreign Secretary, who is himself a disgraced former Prime Minister.

Couldn’t make it up.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Are Foreign Secretaries often elected? As far as I know the UK elects a party and not Prime Ministers.

UK should have a reelection though considering how fucked up everything is.

Edit: removed redundancy

[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

Well yes. They are usually elected members of parliament. They don't have to be of course, as is apparent.