People voted Brexit. But Cameron, Blair and other flawed leaders made it possible | Ros Coward
by Ros Coward from on (#26V56)
The former prime minister's laziness, Boris Johnson's hubris and Michael Gove's disloyalty: so much hinged on personality failings
The usual view of history for left-leaning liberals is that the character of the leading protagonists is secondary. The real drivers of history are socio-economic forces. Marxist views of history, which I imbibed as an undergraduate, take this further: history is determined by material conditions - wages, working conditions, social relations. But in moments of crisis, such as the EU referendum and its consequences, personality flaws really do matter. When events are finely balanced, what this or that individual does can make all the difference.
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