Finally, he’s thrown in the towel. Boris Johnson has accepted there is no escape, and he’s on the way out as prime minister. You can imagine the schadenfreude with which depressed civil servants have watched the events of the last few days unfold. Across the UK, we look on open-mouthed, contemplating the unprecedented situation before us of how to run the business of government without – in most cases – ministers.
One of the interesting things about the MPs who left Johnson’s cabinet is that they were previously held up by party stalwarts as proof of the “diversity” – despite how unrepresentative the government has been on almost every measure other than ethnic background.
