Boris's saving grace is the lack of any real alternative For all the government’s failures, voters are not turning from Tory to Labour in the droves one might expect 22 December 2020 • 3:45pm As Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds sit down to enjoy their Downing Street Christmas dinner this week, the Prime Minister may pause over a glass of indifferent Malbec (well- heeled though he is, I find it impossible to believe he has any palate for wine) and reflect that this has been a pretty grim year. Personal joys like the birth of his youngest son, Wilfred, has been heavily tempered by near-universal catastrophe in professional and political terms - and his brush with death in the Spring.