The Commons standards committee is right that the former government minister must be suspended for sexual harassment
A year ago on Friday, Boris Johnson announced his resignation as prime minister. His Downing Street statement signalled the end of probably the worst and certainly the most chaotic government in modern British history. But it also brought an end to one of Britain’s most miserably consequential administrations of recent times, which took – or in some cases failed to take – actions for which this country is still paying the price, while the man himself coins it on the international speechmaking circuit.
Mr Johnson had presided, if that is the right word for someone so narcissistic and slapdash, over the government of the disastrous Brexit deal; over the botched response to the Covid pandemic (the courts ruled on Thursday that Mr Johnson’s unredacted pandemic era WhatsApps will be handed to the Covid inquiry); and has showed a selfish disregard, verging on corruption, towards many of the most basic rules and ethics of government. A year ago it was clear that he did not understand he was not up to the job. That is still true a year on. In a new interview, asked about the events that led up to his resignation, he leans his head to one side and pretends to snore. He just doesn’t get it. But he just doesn’t care either.
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