The Conservative party deserves not credit for finally ejecting a disgraced prime minister, but obloquy for enabling him for so long
Photograph: Carl Court/Getty ImagesPhotograph: Carl Court/Getty Imagesrom Margaret Thatcher leaving Number 10 in tears to Gordon Brown holding the hands of his family as he walked down Downing Street into the dusk, the end of a premiership is usually bathed in some pathos. I have occupied a ringside seat for the involuntary departure of six previous prime ministers and for each of those fallen leaders there were expressions of empathy even from their fiercest opponents.
At one point it looked as though he would try to carry on with Dilyn the Downing Street Dog as chancellor When David Cameron and Theresa May announced their resignations, no one questioned their suitability to remain at Number 10 as caretaker premier until a successor was chosen. Mr Johnson has sucked the public trust so bone dry that many in his own party think he isn’t fit to stay in the building for a day longer.
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