All his life Boris Johnson has been a chancer and a gambler.
Now, for the sake of appeasing around 100 Tory backbenchers who are fundamentally opposed to Covid restrictions, he is doing away with the rules altogether in England.
It certainly looks like we are now over the worst of the crisis – but it is by no means a thing of the past. Johnson, however, wants to give the impression he has achieved some kind of victory.
