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The Cummings' debacle shows Boris isn't fit to lead

14 November 2020

11:35 PM

14 November 2020

11:35 PM

For all his Falstaffian swagger, Boris Johnson resembles no Shakespearian character so much as Henry VI. He is a weak and vacillating king at the mercy of palace factions. He thinks whatever the last adviser he spoke to told him to think. He has no policies that cannot be changed under pressure or principles that cannot be abandoned if the loudest voice in the room says they must go.

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