It doesn’t matter that the alternatives are all flawed. The UK’s global reputation rests on Johnson being replaced, says former Daily Telegraph editor Max Hastings
Meanwhile the Lib Dems’ Davey is an acceptable backbench MP, but cannot fill big boots. Once again, if we centrists strive for honesty, we should admit doubt that either man would have made a better fist of managing the pandemic or of making policy towards Ukraine than has the current prime minister.
like football supporters baying from the away stands, rather than as respectively our defence and foreign secretaries., reminds us of the unfailing truth that only the most contemptible politicians compare themselves to Churchill, or their enemies to the Nazis. The defence secretary, by his choice of language, debased the discourse to Putin’s own level. Britain is doing the right things by Ukraine, but we should never forget that it is not our people who are fighting and dying.
And so, back to Johnson. Thanks to Starmer’s equivocations about his own foolish beer during lockdown, the prime minister may survive even publication of the
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