Does Boris lie? Well, yes, of course, he’s a politician. That’s the standard response to the honesty question. And in some circumstances, we forgive MPs for telling whoppers. Christian Wakeford, elected as a Tory for Bury South, has just joined the Labour party and effectively admitted that he told a pack of lies to voters at the 2019 election. Yet Sir Keir Starmer welcomed this proven swindler to the opposition and boasted about his defection at PMQs.
Labour crowed with pleasure. Boris tried to silence them by predicting that Bury South would return to the Tories at the next election, ‘under this Prime Minister.’
Hear that? Boris won’t quit.
The speaker, incidentally, has tested positive for John Bercow. He’s nearly as disruptive and bossy as his bothersome predecessor
Referring to the festival atmosphere at No. 10 during lockdown, Boris stressed that ‘work’ was being done there ‘and across Whitehall’. And the result of all this marvellous ‘work’ was the successful vax programme and the economic resurgence.
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