You only have to see Boris Johnson's smirk under fire in Prime Minister's Questions to know that this is a man who has enjoyed the bruising side of politics. It's a quality that might have helped him cope with criticism in the Commons but it has been a disaster for Wales and for devolution.
Throughout his leadership, Johnson appears to have treated the Labour-led Welsh Government as one of his (many) political enemies. He has sought to undermine them politically, restrict their ability to make decisions and deny them the right to spend public money that had once been theirs to dispense.
The problem for all of us is that in doing this, he has not just been attacking a political rival but attacking the very principle of devolution which has been so popular among people of all political persuasions in Wales and has been so relentlessly supported over the last 23 years.
