Good morning. Spare a thought for Boris Johnson. There he is, quietly going about his solemn parliamentary duties of taking a reported six-figure appearance fee to speak to a “thought leadership gathering for the investment and entrepreneurial ecosystem” at the Bellagio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, and awaiting the arrival of another new addition to his numberless tribe. All of a sudden, a viper’s nest of his mortal enemies – that is, his own legal team – insist on raking over the coals of the pandemic yet again.
Did he break lockdown rules by hosting family and friends at Chequers during Covid? Were there, as the Guardian reports this morning, other previously undisclosed events at Downing Street? Should his resignation honours list be scrapped? Does any of it even matter any more? Isn’t the real point that Rishi Sunak has it in for him?
