Shock Therapy for Westminster
Matthew D'Ancona, New York Times
LONDON â There is a genteel savagery to the British prime ministerial system. If you blinked last week, you'd have missed David Cameron's exit and the arrival in No. 10 Downing Street of Theresa May. No period of transition separates one regime from the other, allowing the nation to acclimatize to its new head of government. One prime minister is hustled out No. 10, and another is hustled in.