If it was a question of integrity Boris Johnson would not have made it to Downing Street.
The man who is now leading the country has always had a distant relationship with the truth, honour and principle.
Johnson has been a double-dealer all his political life, choosing to back Brexit not because it was the right political course, but because he thought it would be to his best advantage.
His party knew when they chose him as their leader that he was a charlatan, albeit one with star wattage that seemed to melt the criticisms away.
They also knew that bringing the Brexit guru Dominic Cummings – a “career psychopath” as David Cameron described him – into Downing Street would be a disaster.
Now, after being ejected from Downing Street and seeing Johnson carry on regardless, Cummings is out for revenge.
Leaks about the refurbishment of the Downing Street flat and Johnson giving the nod to James Dyson on tax arrangements show a Prime Minister who thinks rules are for other people.
The allegations that Johnson said he would rather let Covid “rip” and see “bodies pile high in their thousands” than impose lockdown have an all too believable ring of truth about them, despite the denials from this shameless Prime Minister.
The claims of sleaze and lies may not bring Johnson down immediately but they are a stain that voters and those who lost loved ones in this dreadful pandemic will not easily forgive nor forget.
Family need flight to end their plight
Our hearts go out to the family from the South Pacific island nation of Tuvalu who have been stranded in Ayrshire for more than a year
Amosa Soani, his son Tumau and eight-year-old grandson Vatau are desperate to get back home.
They’ve loved their visit to relatives in Scotland but it just happened to coincide with a global pandemic.
The family are in an awful situation with travel restrictions limiting their options on how to return home.
At one stage they even considered taking a four-week trip on a cargo ship.
They’ve had a series of flights cancelled over the past 11 months and now they are looking for assurances they can return to Tuvalu this summer.
British Airways have laid out a list of options for the family.
Hopefully the airline does everything in its power to make sure Amosa, Tumau and Vatau make it home safely stranded 9000 miles from mum and dad for a year
