OPINION: Australia’s politics operate in very different ways from Britain’s. But the UK still has a quiet prominence in Australia’s political, civil, and cultural life.
“We have this habit in Britain of following American politics, a couple of years later,” Jonathan Powell, who served as chief of staff to UK Labour prime minister Tony Blair, toldThe negotiation of Britain’s first post-Brexit free trade agreement with Australia means Johnson has played a significant role.
It was a similar story with Neville Chamberlain. After his disastrous “peace in our time” proclamation following a Munich summit with Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler in 1938, Chamberlain was regarded as hesitant and ineffectual during the early months of World War II and was replaced by Winston Churchill as Germany invaded France.This theme continued with another Conservative prime minister, Anthony Eden, during the Suez crisis in 1956.
Under the ALP model, there are also significant differences with the UK system, and Labor cabinet decisions have been overruled by caucus.It is also interesting that at the same time as Boris Johnson resigned as UK prime minister,to sell their shareholdings and terminate any blind trust arrangements.
At the same time, the negotiation of Britain’s first post-Brexit free trade agreement with Australia means Johnson has played a significant role in opening a new chapter in 233 years of trade and investment history. Australia’s four leading trade partners are now China, the US, Japan and South Korea, according to Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade data.
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