Following a fratricidal period for the left with Morales and Arce at loggerheads, right-wing, anti-MAS candidates obtained over 85 per cent of the votes cast in the latest general election, writes FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ
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Gavin Williamson should have remembered the National Security Secretariat serve the system, not each government - and Jeremy Corbyn would be wise to remember that too, says NICK WRIGHT
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GAVIN WILLIAMSON was chief whip, responsible for discipline, in the most fractious and disunited parliamentary Tory Party in living memory. He helped Theresa May become prime minister and called in the debt to be appointed defence secretary. Williamson then set about proving his inadequacy for the job with such a catalogue of maladroit gaffes and juvenile utterances as to evoke disbelief and hilarity among the military types nominally junior to him in rank and status.
Of course, Britain’s military and security establishment more or less runs itself conscious that ministers come and go while the defence of the imperial realm traditionally depends on the permanent caste of professionals to which they belong by birth or preference.
Where the arriviste Williamson came unstuck was in not taking account of the new importance the security apparatus enjoys.
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