Everybody loathes Boris Johnson now, but I still have loyalty to a rascally fellow wordsmith
It’s fully on the record that Boris was ‘economical with the actualite’ as a journalist. Picture: Owen Humphreys/PA WIRE
Just about everyone seems to loathe Boris Johnson right now, from those who once hired him – Sir Max Hastings, formerly of the Daily Telegraph, has said Boris “cares for nothing but his own fame and gratification” – to an Irish priest friend who sent me an email yesterday referring to “the human horror that is Boris Johnson … that man represents EVIL in so many different ways”.
Boris even recognises his own unpopularity: he won’t endorse any successor for fear his approval would damage anyone’s reputation.
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