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British Prime Minster Theresa May and Foreign Minister Boris Johnson: In the past year, the British leader has possessed the opposite of the Midas touch. Her party lost seats in an unnecessary snap vote and she barely survived the first round of Brexit negotiations.
Former conservative cabinet minister Michael Heseltine says the fights over the EU seen in Britain in the early days were "nothing compared to what we're seeing today."
Heseltine says that Margaret Thatcher "instinctively belonged to the old school" that views the Commonwealth and the United States as being more important than Europe. "But she was smart enough to understand that it would have been disastrous to just stand by without making any move as the single market was established."
Former British Prime Minister David Cameron (left) with his family. Anti-EU Tories badgered Cameron to such a degree that he ultimately agreed to the 2016 referendum that would cost Britain its membership in the EU. And the prime minister his job.
