Philip Collins
(Picture: Daniel Hambury)In politics, victories bring problems just as often as defeats. Boris Johnson’s main claim on the affection of his electorate is that he got Brexit done. His biggest weakness is that, having got Brexit done, he has lost the issue which gives him the most energy. At the Conservative party spring conference in Blackpool this weekend the Prime Minister sounded like a man out of ideas.
Struggling for political definition he told his party that “I know that it’s the instinct of the people of this country, like the people of Ukraine, to choose freedom every time… When the British people voted for Brexit, in such large, large numbers, I don’t believe it was because they were remotely hostile to foreigners. It’s because they wanted to be free to do things differently and for this country to be able to run itself”.
