Can 'boring' leaders save the world from populism?

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Voters enter a polling station in London on July 4, when the Labour Party was voted into power in the U.K. for the first time in 14 years. © Reuters

NAOYA YOSHINO, Nikkei chief of international news center

TOKYO -- When it comes to politics, boring is not always a bad thing.

Take a look at the U.K., which chose the Labour Party for the first time in 14 years in last month's election. Keir Starmer, the new prime minister, has often been described as "boring."

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