The Real Question We Should be Asking about Boris Breaking Lockdown Rules
Perhaps no one has been more instrumental in the shift of political culture away from impartiality and fairness and towards arbitrary power than Boris Johnson himself.
Perhaps no one has been more instrumental in the shift of political culture away from impartiality and fairness and towards arbitrary power than Boris Johnson himself.
Farage has officially gone public with his intention to re-enter the fray. Whatever else might be said about him, his track record of leading insurgencies is second to none.
Like Johnson himself, his resignation honours were outsized. In May, calls came for Johnson’s list to be scrapped altogether.
Boris Johnson may have deserved what he got, but the end of the Boris project represents the failure to consolidate a historic and lasting pro-worker, pro-nation consensus.
Critics suggest the former prime minister is less interested in resolving Brexit than finding himself back in the halls of power.
A deal between the UK and EU to implement the Northern Ireland Protocol is close at hand.
After Johnson’s bow out, Penny Mordaunt will be attempting to woo his backers. It is only when she sails past the 100-mark by Monday, 2 p.m., that she can go head to head with Sunak.
Truss faces multiple political challenges from the outset, not least of which is to unite a Conservative party still scarred by the toppling of its most successful leader in decades, not to mention the less-than-amicable leadership contest which followed.
In his typical sloganeering fashion, Johnson called on the nation to “go nuclear and go large, go with Sizewell C.” He appeared confident that the deal will get “over the line” in the coming weeks, saying it would “be absolute madness not to.”
Truss was ridiculed for wearing furs in Moscow during a thaw. It’s an apt metaphor for her—no matter the weather, she’ll wear furs to Moscow because Thatcher did, and no matter the economic forecast, she’ll cut taxes because Thatcher did.
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