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Theresa May's 'Profoundly Weak, Surprisingly Stable' Leadership

One factor keeping the British prime minister in power is, paradoxically, her own unpopularity.
Source: Joe Giddens / AP

A far cry from the kind of leadership she promised on the campaign trail over the summer, Theresa May’s week has been anything but “strong and stable.” Over a seven-day period, the U.K. prime minister lost two members of her cabinet—one to a sexual-harassment scandal that has implicated leaders on both sides of the House of Commons, and another to a breach of the ministerial code that ended in what some have dubbed the “longest walk of shame in British.”

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