UK's new leader faces same old problems
The United Kingdom got its third prime minister in three years on Wednesday, when Boris Johnson defeated his rival Jeremy Hunt to become leader of the Conservative Party and finally realized his ambition of moving into No 10 Downing Street.
How long his sojourn will be remains to be seen, not least because he still faces the same tasks his predecessor notably failed to find a way to accomplish - Brexit and unite the country.
His brief victory speech was full of high-pitched optimism and grand ambitions. But he is unlikely to find the going any easier. Having adopted a hard-line "come what may" stance on the UK leaving the European Union, he now has to find a way to deliver on that, given that Parliament has already decided that a no-deal is not an option.
