The volley of boos that rang out as he headed into St Paul’s Cathedral to celebrate the Queen ’s Jubilee last month were the beginning of the end for Boris Johnson.
Savaged by revelations he had partied while people were barred from seeing dying loved ones and heavily wounded by the perception he was too aloof to grasp the severity of the cost-of-living crisis, he had been a dead man walking for months.
But in truth, anyone who had followed his career knew it was only a matter of time before the people who needed to trust him would lose patience with this serial liar and shameless rule-breaker and dump him.
