My most recent Cif effort began:
David Cameron might disagree but Boris Johnson is an unusually reliable politician. I don't mean that in the sense of, say, dependably dodging awkward questions – something the London mayor excels at – but in terms of personal philosophy. He may be cunning, evasive, shameless, ravenous for power and a bare-faced populist, but all this is rooted in a deep intellectual consistency. There is a unity, a wholeness, about his ideology. In those senses of the word, Johnson has integrity.
Could go either way, couldn't it? Now read on.
