After an eight-day summit dash from Rwanda to Spain via Germany’s Bavarian Alps, Boris Johnson told reporters he was “keen” to get back to Britain.
“There’s no place like home,” the U.K. prime minister said in Madrid, stealing the famous line from “The Wizard of Oz” to counter media suggestions he was avoiding the day job.
In reality, though, it’s easy to see why more time abroad might have appealed. The U.K. that Johnson arrived back to late Thursday is fractured, with striking rail staff, angry doctors and restless teachers fueling the sense that a cost-of-living crisis is spiraling out of control.
