WITH the wind jiggling in the rigging of the Trincomalee behind him, Boris Johnson held court yesterday afternoon beside the water in the historic centre of maritime Hartlepool. “If there’s a lesson, it is the public want politicians to get on with their priorities,” he said, standing coatless on the quayside despite the threat of hail. “Here in Hartlepool, people voted for Brexit and we got Brexit done, and then we are able to do other things.” With the new MP shivering beside him, he launched into his bullet points of the freeport, of the economic campus in Darlington, of taking control of our borders, of overturning the European Super League, and of levelling up.