It is testament to Boris Johnson’s extraordinary powers as a politician that “What will he do next?” remains, even now, four months after his resignation as prime minister, an interesting and important question.
It’s true that Johnson has followed David Cameron and Tony Blair down the post-premiership path of more-or-less dignified money-spinning. But nobody (save perhaps a few Blairite ultras) thinks that, for Blair or Cameron, such efforts are anything more than the postscripts to their political lives.
