The only good news for Johnson is that, by now, he’s just about lost the capacity to shock us. The likes of Priti Patel and Nadine Dorries may still be inexplicably captured by his charms, as indeed are an uncomfortably large proportion of the Tory membership, for whom it seems no crime is serious enough to disqualify Johnson from their affections.įor the rest of us, though, any enthusiasm for him or his cynical Brexit project has long since evaporated. Out of office, stripped of power, and with few friends left anywhere, even within his own party, Johnson relies on the remaining fanatical devotees of his cult of personality to sustain what little hope he has of a return to high office. Welcome, PM Sunak – the last best option to take over from Truss.Johnson was ‘begging people for votes’ in a ‘demeaning’ way, says IDS.Rishi Sunak to meet King Charles as Truss defends her record - live.A veteran Labour MP, former cabinet minister, and ex-deputy leader of her party, the mother of the House of Commons, now chair of the privileges committee, also refuses to be bamboozled by BoJo. Of more immediate concern to Johnson is another “HH” figure, who holds his rapidly evaporating hopes of a comeback in her firm, impartial hands – Harriet Harman KC, a year younger than Hallett and another pioneering feminist. That reckoning, though, is perhaps years away. The baroness has dismissed his whingeing. Johnson has pleaded with Hallett to delay her work until he has hired some lawyers he feels are more sympathetic to his cause than the government-appointed ones who dobbed him in (as he sees it). Given what we know about Johnson’s proclivities, we cannot be sure that he spent all of his time at Chequers exploring the first editions in the library, or collecting butterflies. Aside from that, there is also the possibility that damaging, not to say salacious, details may leak in the meantime, as they tend to. There may well be some severe embarrassment in store for him when Hallett eventually comes to publish. Johnson is therefore right to be fearful.
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