Boris Johnson rose to be Tory leader and prime minister because of his talent for lying, not despite it. The job of a Tory prime minister who has to win elections is to help the ultra-wealthy while also convincing enough of the working-class majority that we’re being helped too. Modestly, of course, because “the country can’t afford” more, but helped. The job also is to push the majority into accepting limitations, and getting us at least to half-believe that similar limitations are respected by the super-rich.