The Beergate story has helped Boris Johnson get through what should have been a perilous weekend for his premiership
Boris Johnson should, by rights, be fighting for his political survival this week.
He has taken a thumping majority any Tory leader would envy and blown it in just over two years, with precious little to show for all that squandered goodwill except the threat of a recession, rocketing inflation, a personal reputation dragged through the gutter and the future prospect of not one but two breakaway movements from the United Kingdom. On Thursday he paid the price, with Tory remainers turning on him throughout what were once his party’s southern heartlands.
