Center for Strategic and International Studies: Would United Kingdom or Ireland Embrace National Unity Government Amid COVID-19 Crisis?
April 06, 2020
April 06, 2020
WASHINGTON, April 6 -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following blog:
Unity or 'national' governments--when main opposition parties are brought into government and their leaders are usually given senior government roles--have a much-respected history in times of great crisis or existential threat. Perhaps the most famous unity government was led by Winston Churchill from 1940 to 1945. Churchill made Labour leader Clement Attlee his deputy prime ministe . . .
Unity or 'national' governments--when main opposition parties are brought into government and their leaders are usually given senior government roles--have a much-respected history in times of great crisis or existential threat. Perhaps the most famous unity government was led by Winston Churchill from 1940 to 1945. Churchill made Labour leader Clement Attlee his deputy prime ministe . . .