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(CNN) On January 2, 2020, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson tweeted that the following 12 months would amount to a fantastic year for Britain. Instead, a global pandemic and the political turmoil of Brexit have stretched the social fabric of the United Kingdom to ripping point.
The politics and constitutional arrangements between the four nations that make up the United Kingdom are a constant source of pain to any leader trying to reconcile their substantively different political and societal priorities.
But the two biggest peacetime crises faced by Britain one anticipated, and one that came out of thin air have combined to create a perfect storm of dissatisfaction with the status quo.