Inside the Week That Broke British Politics

One of the most hackneyed clichés in journalism holds that a week is a long time in politics. But few observers of British politics have lived through a week like this one.

A referendum vote that defied every logical prediction. The resignation of a prime minister. The descent into recrimination and infighting of one of Britain's major political parties. And in the other, an exhibition of Game of Thrones-like skullduggery. And it's not even Friday.