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Britain’s leadership crisis: ‘We need to drop the ego’

By Reuters
21 October 2022   |   2:08 pm
A day after declaring she was "a fighter not a quitter", Liz Truss resigned, becoming the shortest-serving British prime minister in history. With the UK now poised to have its fifth leader in six years, we discuss the leadership crisis with political writer, author and leadership specialist Stefan Stern.

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