“You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing,” former trade secretary David Davis said. “Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go.” | Rob Harris | ANALYSIS
Boris Johnson’s premiership is in free-fall, and it is now a case of when, not if, he leaves Downing Street with his suitcase, wife Carrie, two small children and rescue dog Dilyn in tow.
It’s a comparison he would not take kindly to, although one backbench MP recently referenced the wartime leader when calling on Johnson to quit by repeating the lines Tory MP Leo Amery once said to Chamberlain. All Johnson’s missteps have basically been the same offence: a complete disregard for the ethics that come with his office.
The prime minister’s tenure is now so comical that even Neil Parish, forced to quit as a Tory MP two months agoon his mobile phone in the House of Commons while supposedly searching for tractors, appeared on radio to give Johnson a lecture on moral standards. The Tories, he wrote, need to be competent and acting in the national interest, but “the public are concluding that we are now neither”.
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