Cowardly Boris Johnson dodging questions on Brexit, Donald Trump, Iran and Heathrow was a serial liar demonstrating the leopard has not changed his spots.
The deranged bluster of the incompetent clown who Tory members are most likely to impose on Britain as Prime Minister will not have inspired confidence that he has the answers the country wants to hear.
Most Conservatives have already voted in the party’s flawed ballot so the ITV debate with rival Jeremy Hunt was in many ways a sideshow rather than a formal audition for a post of such national importance.
But viewers watching last night saw a slippery, arrogant, entitled bumbler demonstrating why he couldn’t be trusted to run a bath never mind our country.
We need a General Election to let us, the people, decide who rules over us and end a frightening charade, Johnson’s absurd piffle reminding folk why he is uniquely unsuitable.
Power to the People
Labour finally formally backing a fresh referendum on Britain’s future in Europe gives power back to the people when Brexit’s proved considerably messier and costlier than was promised in 2016.
But Jeremy Corbyn needs to decide now if in Downing Street he’d champion staying in or quitting under a Labour negotiated deal, setting out what he’d do in office to match hostility in opposition to the Tory shambles and a tax-imposing, job-destroying no deal catastrophe.
Clarity’s crucial after months of Labour confusion with the Brexit Party and Conservatives wanting to drag us out and the Liberal Democrats, Greens plus nationalists in Wales and Scotland keeping us in.
We’re better informed than ever so should embrace enthusiastically the democracy of a final say.
Darroch's on the money
With every weird Tweet a thin-skinned Donald Trump proves Britain’s man in Washington, Sir Kim Darroch, was on the money about the oddball in the White House.
This is a US President who should be told the less he says the wiser people might, and we just say might, be wiser when tapping his fingers or opening his mouth reveals a bigoted sensitivity shaming America.
