Boris Johnson was feeling rueful at a London Q&A this week. The former Prime Minister told CNN’s Tania Bryer about his time in office, from Brexit to Covid.
His big regret was not getting to know the 109 new Tory MPs from his 2019 landslide win better. If he had his time again, he said, he would have made more of an effort to win them over, and perhaps stop them doing anything “foolish”. Last summer, 41 per cent of Tory MPs voted against him in a confidence vote, one of several moments leading to his leaving office.
As Shakespeare, who Johnson admires, once wrote, regrets can be useless: “Things without all remedy should be without regard: what’s done, is done”.
