Earlier this year, I wrote an article on how Boris Johnson had outplayed populist Nigel Farage. Farage’s star was dimming, whereas Johnson commanded a double-digit lead in the polls, after first having successfully negotiated a trade deal with the EU and shortly thereafter led a record-breaking vaccine rollout that was the envy of the rest of the world.
John Gustavsson is a Swedish conservative writer with a Ph.D. in economics, with past experience as a policy adviser and researcher in the European Parliament.
