Boris Johnson is enjoying himself back at The Spectator. ‘My place of former employment,’ the former editor booms as he sits down, stands up, and starts re-ordering items around the wood-panelled office. ‘I like this book-lined lair that you’ve given me – very, very grand.’

‘I found the pandemic a nightmare because I was genuinely uncertain as to the efficacy of what we were doing’

He’s spent the past month flogging his memoir, Unleashed.