It's Wednesday, June 8, 2022. I'm Albert Moller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

One of the things we might need to think about is the distinction between important

and urgent.

Sometimes the important is urgent and the urgent is important, but sometimes those are separate

categories. Now I'm thinking of

Britain today as we think in those two terms because there's an urgent story and

there's an important story. They're actually different stories though related. You wonder where in the world we're going here?

Well we are going to Boris Johnson and Queen Elizabeth the second.

When it comes to the big news about Prime Minister Boris Johnson the situation urgent. Only time will tell how important it is.

When it comes to the platinum jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II as the longest-reining monarch or

British history, that might not be particularly urgent, but it is

important. So we will talk about the urgent first and the important second. The urgent

Boris Johnson. The British Prime Minister faced a vote of

confidence in recent days in the House of Commons, the British Parliament, and he

won it, but he won it by a vote of 211 to 148, which means given the size of his parliamentary

majority, it probably in political terms should count as a loss.

But this raises a host of issues for our consideration.

Boris Johnson, just a matter of a couple years ago, won a massive victory for Britain's

Tory party.

It's Conservative Party.

We're going to think more about that in just a moment as well.

But nonetheless, Boris Johnson has been one of the most colorful figures in British politics

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