It's not as if the United Kingdom was not ready for a change; it had been written in the stars and in the minds of countless citizens for months, if not years, prior to the elections which brought the Labour Party back into power with a landslide election result. It had been heralded by the massive failings of a succession of Conservative-led governments, and by the inability of one Prime Minister after another to read the room, to see what was needed, to react to the reality of the times, and to stop putting themselves and their party before the needs of both the country and its people.