Boris Johnson will be the political victor of Covid The PM’s ‘have cake, eat cake’ strategy is yielding results, leaving Labour to pick up the crumbs 26 February 2021 • 8:00pm It is highly disconcerting, for those of us who don’t like him, that the political victor of the pandemic will be Boris Johnson. Though the political class regards the pandemic as a political event, the public disagrees. A one-way road to freedom, even if it is a little bumpy, will leave the Government in a strong position. And that strength derives, almost entirely, from the oddly formidable, consistently und...