Boris Johnson is an untrustworthy Tory leader who, if he asked the time, would leave you later checking you still had a watch.
The Conservative manifesto launch was deeply deceitful even by his debased standards as the party’s candidate for Prime Minister ignored glaring omissions, distorted reality and told outright lies.
Truth matters in politics and Johnson’s fictions are a mortal threat to democracy, particularly if he cons enough people on 12 December.
Whether it’s nurses or hospitals, Brexit or Labour’s plans, a leader of a major political party sounding such a complete stranger to the truth is a toxic danger.
Rivals putting the best possible gloss on their party while tarnishing their opponents is as old as politics itself yet Johnson’s a completely different creature, a twister who displays no sense of right or wrong.
Calling this election as we see it, refusing to be manipulated by Johnson’s spin doctors and the Tory propaganda machine, is why the Conservatives kicked the Daily Mirror off their leader’s battle bus.
The truth is Johnson’s Tory manifesto is truly woeful considering the real challenges confronting the country.
