To survive as PM they will need swift successful Brexit negotiations, quickly negotiating 11 bilateral trade agreements where we have been contacted by 11 countries already, which range from huge to minnows. Continue to make the UK attractive for overseas investment, our central position (GMT means ROW 12 hours either side with majority within 8 hours), the use of the English language, low taxes including 17% corporation tax by 2020 and good industrial relations. I think you will find the doomungers are wrong as investment and growth accelerate as a result of us being outside of the over-regulated EU zone. Our exports are growing the fastest and we run a trade surplus with the rest of the world.
I was reading today a global challenges, over the next 50 years, article written a couple of weeks before the Brexit vote by a senior research fellow at an Austrian institution. It centred on how the growth of China is going to with the US make it a bi-polar world, how the USD is likely to be challenged by a second reserve currency. How the continued rise of China, Asia, with the BRICS will create new challenges for the US. Her footnote on the EU was interesting. This will continue to be a declining inward looking backwater, where inter-country arguments are more important than engaging with the rest of the world.
We will look back on this like our early lead in leaving the Gold Standard in 1931 which meant we avoided the worst of the 1930's depression compared with the US and France.