They recently released a poll over here in Britain. Only women were polled and they were asked ‘Would you sleep with Boris Johnson?’.  Ninety-three per cent of respondents ticked ‘never again’.

And the thing is, this type of joke is not hurting Johnson. It’s helping him. It makes him seem something other than today’s predominant sort of politician – one of the cookie-cutter variety who has started in a ministerial office or think tank or faux union job, maybe with some university politics thrown in, and who comes across to voters (almost always for good reason) as a person of no...