Johnson given free rein to waffle and talk over questioners in debate over Tory manifesto promise
How much longer can this go on? Previous prime ministers have at least been on nodding terms with the truth, but Boris Johnson is completely without shame. Without conscience. A sociopath for whom no lie is off limits: both in his public and his private lives. What counts is reality as he would like it to be.
All of which makes prime minister’s questions increasingly pointless – other than as an exercise in Oxford Union am-dram – because there is no chance of Johnson ever admitting he has made a mistake. Or has changed his mind. Today was a case in point. Keir Starmer thought he had Boris banged to rights. After all, even the defence secretary had said the government was planning to break the Tory manifesto promise not to cut the number of troops in his commons statement earlier in the week.
