Go Boris!

Anyone claiming to be able to pass expert judgement on Boris Johnson’s premiership at this early stage is talking absolute nonsense. Yes, I'm ready to be disappointed, but at the moment I'm optimistic. Boris Johnson, I believe, has the capacity to be Britain's greatest conservative prime minister since Margaret Thatcher.

Almost no one has a good word to say about Britain's new Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Those on the right dismiss him either as a feckless libertine who thinks with his private parts (historian David Starkey) or a conservative-in-name-only, useless on detail, and with 'no political or moral compass' (Spectator columnist Bruce Anderson). Those on the left insist that he is a dangerous, right-wing lunatic whose threats of 'crashing out' of the EU with a No Deal Brexit could jeopardise Britain for generations, and whose careless rhetoric (black people called "piccaninnies"; Muslim women in burkas looking like "letter boxes") betrays an inner racist whom ethnic and relig ...