The writer Michael Lewis once told Mr Steerpike that the American equivalent of Boris Johnson wasn’t Donald Trump. It was Tucker Carlson. Carlson is, like Johnson, a journalist by training. Both men are brilliant and funny stylists who made a habit of infuriating their country’s media class by turning themselves into successful conservatives.
That was back in the 2010s and Mr S thought it an apt comparison. But the times they have a-changed. These days Boris, now a former prime minister, is a global cheerleader for weapons to Ukraine and has duly launched a sudden broadside against the Fox News host – claiming to be ‘horrified’ that leading Republicans are afraid of Tucker. Tucker, in return, described Johnson as a ‘terrified old woman’.
Boris, currently on a glory tour of the US, isn’t quite the man he was
Boris, currently on a glory tour of the US, isn’t quite the man he was.
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