There is a headline in my paper today which reads “Boris Johnson is the wrong man in the wrong job at the wrong time.”  It should read:

“Boris Johnson is the wrong man.”

We were warned he would be no good, and he isn’t.  Read Max Hastings prophetic judgement: ” he is unfit for national office, because it seems he cares for no interest save his own fame and gratification…. his premiership will almost certainly reveal a contempt for rules, precedent, order and stability… dignity still matters in public office, and Johnson will never have it. Yet his graver vice is cowardice… he has long been considered a bully, prone to making cheap threats…. the only people who think Johnson a nice guy are those who do not know him.”

People are now dying because of the incompetence and muddle of this government.   That is Johnson’s responsibility, and that will be Johnson’s legacy: would that it is drawn soon.