Amongst the UK’s current Conservative Government, rhetorically invoking the body politic is common practice. For example, in 2019 Number 10 Special Advisor Dominic Cummings argued that a European reformist faction within the Tory party “should be treated like a metastasising tumour and excised from the UK body politic” while UK Prime Minister (PM) Boris Johnson deployed the metaphor as a …
Fit for Purpose? Prime Minister Johnson’s Two Bodies and the UK Better Health Strategy
This article is part of the series: Dispatches from the pandemic