The UK's 'PM-in-waiting' just beat a guy wearing a trash can

Candidate Count Binface poses for the media during the Clacton by-election count at the Leisure Centre in Clacton on Sea, England, Friday, Aug. 14, 2026.(AP Photo/Richard Pelham) Ever since the Brexit referendum – called by a Prime Minister who had to maintain a stiff upper lip about whether he had any coital relations with a dead hog – British politics has been a surreal Lovecraftian horror show, with the highlight being a Prime Minister whose innings was shorter than that of a bulb of lettuce. And yet it was horrifying enough for the Queen – who shared her name – to depart for Elysium. Or perhaps it was the revulsion at dealing with a coloured Duchess of Sussex.Everything about British politics since Brexit has been so off the rails – much like the politics across the Pond – that fans of Yes Minister have even been left wondering if the classic show was too sedate to capture the schizophrenic chicanery of the current era.Since David Cameron stepped down, we’ve had so many Prime Ministers from the land of Shakespeare that the premiership has started resembling what a colleague labelled a “two-year free trial” subscription service.We’ve had Theresa May, whose idea of youthful delin...