Welcome to the Dispatch Podcast. I'm your host Sarah Izger joined by Jonah Goldberg, David

French and Steve Hayes. We have plenty to discuss today breaking news overnight, the resignation

of Boris Johnson. From the UK Prime Minister ship, we'll talk about Chicago and the tragedy

unfolding on July 4th, the latest from Ukraine, and finally, how baked is the 2022 mid-term election here?

Let's dive right in. I don't even spend that much time on this perhaps, but Boris Johnson,

scandal after scandal after scandal, finally overnight, he announced, well overnight for us,

announced that he was leaving. Is this meaningful, politically is it meaningful, geopolitically,

or is this just some other country's problem? I should have put it at the end of the show, Jonah.

I think it's significant. I think that what he was trying to do in the internal fights was

actually very interesting. He was claiming that he had an effect what the Brits are calling a

presidential mandate. They don't have a presidential system and so far as he got a lot of voters to

vote for him and not for the party. In the British system, the Prime Minister's power

derives entirely from the delegated authority of the votes of the members of parliament and nobody

else. He tried to say, no, no, no, I have a different kind of mandate and people were like, yeah,

we don't buy that argument. I watched his press conference this morning and he made kind of hinted

at those kinds of arguments. I think it's just sort of interesting to me because I've been complaining

for several years now that a lot of Americans, particularly progressives, act as if and think as if

we have a parliamentary system when we don't. Presidential candidates say on day one, I will do all

of these things when our system doesn't allow the president to do any of those things on day one.

I find it kind of ironic in Britain, it's the reverse happening is that

Boris Johnson is sort of looking at the way Trump did things and trying to go over the heads of

the institutions there and it just doesn't work. But more broadly, I mean, England is still

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