Opinion: Love him or loathe him, Boris Johnson was Britain’s most consequential PM since Thatcher | George Brandis
The morning after Britain voted to leave the European Union in 2016, Boris Johnson’s father, Stanley, was in the green room of a television studio, waiting to be interviewed on the shock outcome.
If the ultimate test of the significance of a political leader is the extent to which they changed their nation’s history, then Johnson was, without question, the most important British prime minister since Thatcher. Among those who came between, only Tony Blair rates as a prime minister of the first rank, but his Third Way politics were squandered in the sands of Iraq.
In the end, even the luckiest politician runs out of luck; the most daredevil performer slips on the tightrope. He was also lucky in his enemies – none more so than in having Jeremy Corbyn as his antagonist in the 2019 election. It is almost impossible to imagine a political figure more repulsive to patriotic, old-fashioned, working-class Labour voters.
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