Are Tory MPs as deluded as Boris Johnson? It’s a tough act to follow, but they’re doing their best

‘The parliamentary Conservative party in the majority showed appalling judgment on Johnson, despite mountains of indications it would turn out badly.’ Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP

Carrie Johnson recently confirmed she was expecting her third child, and I wish her stamina. At one point I also had three children under the age of three-and-a-half, and can confirm it’s quite a handful. However, at least I was not also married to a toddler at the time.

The Johnson household will soon effectively contain four babies of various sizes, with the 58-year-old one currently going through what nanny might call “a difficult stage”. He will be 59 on Monday, the very day parliament debates and votes on the damning privileges committee report that found he misled it. Unfortunately, the ex-prime ministerial nappy has already been filled, and the pram screamingly emptied of all toys. Or as Johnson put it to an aide last summer, hours before the resignation of 57 (FIFTY SEVEN) ministers finally forced him to quit: “dignity is a grossly overrated commodity”. Takes an overrated commodity to know one, I guess.