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With Boris Johnson in intensive care, who runs the UK?

  • Written by Luke Reader, Teaching Fellow, History Department, Case Western Reserve University
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson in mid-March, before he tested positive for the coronavirus.Ray Tang/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Boris Johnson – who was admitted to intensive care on April 6 with worsening symptoms of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus – is not the first British prime minister to experience a...

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