The US showed that you can just straight up lie and commit crimes and still be allowed in power. So now everyone’s trying it.

Results vary because it depends on the power of that particular country’s equivalent to a constitution. You couldn’t get away with Trump levels of draconianism in the UK but that still leaves a lot of wiggle room.

This whole story is very confusing, there doesn’t seem to be any evidence of a crime having been committed and yet it still went to court and she was told to plead guilty? That really doesn’t sound right. I suspect there’s more detail to the story that we haven’t been told.