Cometh the hour, disappeareth the man. You’d have thought that wild horses wouldn’t have kept Rishi Sunak away from the Commons for the debate on the privileges committee report on Boris Johnson. After all, Sunak had promised when he took office in October last year that he would govern with integrity, accountability and professionalism. And since then we’ve all been waiting for a sign. The smallest nod that he had meant what he said.
And here was the perfect opportunity. The most binary choice imaginable. Boris Johnson had been definitively found to have lied and lied and lied again. To parliament. To the country. To just about everyone he had ever met. Lying is what he does. What he always has done. Quite why it took so many MPs so long to realise what had been blindingly obvious to some of us for years and years is another question. But hey! They got there in the end. Just rejoice at that.
