The Tory leadership race is a chance to measure the character of the two men who want to be Prime Minister.
Boris Johnson is failing this test miserably.
Even party activists have branded him a coward for refusing to take part in a series of head-to-head TV debates with Jeremy Hunt.
Johnson has agreed to only one broadcast showdown but that is late in the contest when most members will have already voted.
When not running scared he is either making jibes at foreigners or making unaffordable spending promises.
He claims to be a One Nation Conservative but his signature tax cut will cost £9billion and most benefit the richest 10% in the country.
His plan for Brexit lacks any detail and rests on the spurious premise that our departure can be achieved through “positive energy.”
No wonder he is trying to avoid scrutiny.
You would no more entrust him with our future than you would hand Eddie the Eagle a Ming vase as he heads down the ski jump.
