Why comparisons between Boris Johnson and Charles I aren’t just lazy rhetoric | John Rees

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Why comparisons between Boris Johnson and Charles I aren’t just lazy rhetoric | John Rees
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He may not be the absolutist king, but Johnson is isolated and autocratic – and we’ve seen that before, says the author and campaigner John Rees

When a prime minister who hasn’t faced a general election gains the assent of an unelected monarch to prorogue parliament, it is inevitable that some parallels will be found with Charles I’s dismissal of MPs in the mid-17th century.

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