At last the curtain falls on Boris Johnson: the pantomime prime minister utterly lacking in character

‘Boris Johnson wanted to be king of the world, but he just didn’t know what he wanted to do with it.’ Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

More panto than Pericles. As the curtain comes down early on yet another prime ministerial performance, it’s interesting to reflect on how there are two scandalous and flamboyant “characters” in our national culture who followed the exact same path in their early years – going to school first at Eton and then on to Balliol College, Oxford.

Captain Hook and Boris Johnson.