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"It is very difficult today to say what we should expect from the new United Kingdom after the queen's death. We must think that the British monarchy does not have such a significant weight in the political affairs of the nation or in any case of the state, but the king represents, and this is true. important, the head of the Church, who beyond the spiritual aspect means tradition, continuity. And represents unity within a country, which is made up of different nations ".
Dario Fabbri, geopolitical analyst and journalist, thus analyzes the future of the United Kingdom in the conference that this evening opened the autumn program of cultural initiatives at the Intesa Sanpaolo skyscraper.
"If many of these countries do not have at all in their hearts the English domination that was, and still is, a little bit more,
many of them instead have a certain sympathy for the monarchy - he underlines -.
And this is precisely what is used, and Elizabeth II did it very well, to hold together parts of a kingdom that would otherwise be centrifugal and that would essentially mean the end of the United Kingdom.
Today Carlo knows he has this as his first goal, to keep the kingdom together, as his mother managed to do.
It is a gamble, to say today how it will end is impossible ".
In the conference, 'Queen Elizabeth II and four of her prime ministers', Fabbri focused on the figures of Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair, Boris Johnson, chosen "because they are the most significant - he explains - and represent four different moments of history of the United Kingdom ".
"Churchill - he remembers - is that attempt to still be an empire that then ends with the Suez crisis, Thatcher represents the definitive decline of the empire, in which the United Kingdom tries to become something else, deindustrializes, but at the same time maintains an imperial pride as in the war of the Malvinas Blair - he continues - embodies the post imperial phase par excellence, in which England even thinks it can be almost a nation or at least a 'normal' state, dreams of the euro.
And then the unrealistic but deeply rooted in Johnson's global Britain strategy, from Brexit onwards.
That the United Kingdom still exists in 30 years is a great bet - concludes Fabbri - the monarchy must play the role of glue to save the United Kingdom ".
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