Johnson, His Fall
James Butler
Boris Johnson does not like resigning. Shamelessness has been his political watchword, and it has allowed him to cling to power through scandals that would have felled other politicians. But as his current series of lies unravels, it is hard to see what might stay his backbenchers’ hands. He is staggeringly unpopular, even among Conservative voters. He no longer has plausible patronage to spread around. Loyalists are fraying away from him. It is over for Johnson, even if he is constitutionally incapable of facing the fact.