Allies face highly disunited UK on 75th anniversary of D Day

ON June 6, 1944, British and American troops began Operation Overlord to free Europe from the Nazis.

Sadly, the UK's deeply divided politicians and people are now struggling to cope with the promised departure from the European Union which has kept peace in the region since World War II.

Three years after 52 per cent of voters chose to leave the EU and 48 per cent wanted to remain, the UK parliament is in the throes of a political war. On one side, the Tory Party is fractured. Some 314 Conservatives MPs will shortly begin the process of choosing a leader, notably two finalists from a dozen candidates. An estimated 160,000 mainly elderly Conservative members and activists who are not in touch with Britain's youth will vote for a new prime minister. Despite the boast of British democracy, this is the unsatisfactory way that the leader of 62 million people in the UK will be chosen.