Boardroom lessons from Brexit
Comment: Negotiations to leave the EU have proved enormously complex and have exposed major fault lines in British politics. But the process has also been instructive about the challenges and principles of leadership. Our commentators discuss the lessons they take from events so far.
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'The common good is of paramount importance'
Marie-Louise Clayton
Leadership? Headless chickens? Or, herding cats? Brexit has produced “Bercowesque”, my newly coined adjective: an element of circus, combined with hubris, small stature, vacillation and enormous ego; a worthy descriptor of our current parliamentary behaviour.
What have we seen demonstrated to us by our elected leaders over the past year or so? Whether you voted for or against Brexit, the debacle that has been in evidence, particularly over the past six months, has been enough to put me off voting ever again.
But I guess that would be the same level of abdication e
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