Boris Johnson is haemorrhaging authority after a record, thumping rebellion by almost 100 Conservative MPs.
He isn’t quite yet in office without power but power is clearly seeping away and the charlatan increasingly isolated in that office.
Led by Keir Starmer, Labour looked like an alternative government in the making as they voted to save the Covid Plan B safety measures, even as Johnson’s reign crumbles.
Two years after securing an 80-seat majority, the writing’s clearly on the wall for Johnson.
His looming demise will make him more desperate than ever to cling on North Shropshire, a Tory citadel, in tomorrow’s by-election.
Britain’s tragedy is to have in Downing Street during a cataclysmic pandemic, with a new virus mutation rampant, the worst Prime Minister this side of the Second World War.
Johnson is unfit to lead a great country. At last, Conservative MPs are facing up to that.
Take the photo
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick is welcome to use our photograph of Tory London Mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey at a Covid rule-breaking crowded party in Conservative HQ.
She can also study our picture of Boris Johnson at a Downing Street quiz, flanked by a colleague garlanded with tinsel, to gather evidence that the rulers did not follow the rules they imposed on the ruled.
The stonewalling police chief’s refusal to investigate what went on at the heart of Government late last year is itself becoming a scandal. Tens of thousands of people were fined for breaching restrictions.
We must all be equal before the law and the law must treat us all equally.
Number’s up
Crime didn’t pay for two men who bought a National Lottery scratchcard using a stolen debit card, then tried to claim the £4million jackpot.
The dodgy pair’s unlucky number is 18 – the number of months each was jailed.
