The tragic fall of Boris Johnson

The tragic fall of Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson invented himself as a PG Wodehouse character who hid himself behind a mask of bumbling incompetence. (Image: Depositphotos)
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By Adrian Wooldridge, Bloomberg OpinionBoris Johnson once claimed that he was leaving journalism for politics because nobody erects statues to journalists. He is now leaving politics for journalism again, or at least for a life of writing and speechifying, but the country is no more likely to erect a statue to him than it is to Liz Truss.The British establishment hates Johnson as intensely as it has hated anyone since Oswald Mosley. Rishi Sunak’s Tory Party hopes vainly that the former prime minister will ride into the sunset. S...

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