Brexit with Boris?

Many episodes in Boris Johnson’s life seem to belong more properly in the pages of a comic novel. Early on, he realized how he could entertain his audience. A buffoon at times he has a brilliant mind. Now the role of his life is waiting: He might become Britain’s next Prime Minister to lead the country out of the EU. Is he up to the job?

Boris Johnson possesses an almost unbelievable ability to thrust himself to the centre of events. Often he does so by flouting the rules observed by conventional politicians. It is hard to think of another Conservative who, on the brink of becoming Prime Minister, would take the risk of going to live with his girlfriend in a flat in south London with such thin walls that the neighbours, who disapprove of him, were able to make a recording of a late-night row between the lovers, which last Friday [21st June] was handed over to the Guardian, a left-wing, anti-Johnson newspaper. The neighbours also summoned the police, who were obliged to come and see if anything was seriously the matter, and w ...