Nick Cohen Nick Cohen

Boris Johnson is Theresa May in drag

The only difference is that Johnson's charlatanism will contain his freedom of manoeuvre as the crisis deepens

Boris Johnson seems the opposite of Theresa May. The worst thing she ever did was run through a wheat field. The worst thing he ever did remains open to debate. But dark suspicious prompted Charles Moore, whom older readers will remember as a defender of family values, to ask: ‘Does it matter if our future prime minister is considered by some to be a sex maniac?’ (Not if it’s a sex maniac Moore supports, apparently.

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