The Johnsons surprise Saturday wedding at Westminister Cathedral capped a roller-coaster week for the couple in which they were both mauled by the PM s ex-chief aide.
SINCE the aim of Boris Johnson’s government is to murder us all in our beds, having privatised us and sold us to Donald Trump – no, hang on, there really are people who believe this, apparently without having asked themselves whether or why anyone would want to – it must have seemed a safe bet to condemn its decision, in March last year, not to join the EU vaccine procurement scheme. This was, quite a lot of folk assured us, not merely a mistake, but tantamount to mass murder. It requires a certain amount of restraint not to find oneself humming “Who’s sorry now” as you read the tweets and articles by those same people starting: “I never said the EU was perfect but…” in an attempt to maintain that the EU’s appalling behaviour and failures, and the UK’s success, somehow vindicates their previous position. Nonetheless, I am restraining myself, and so, I’m pleased to say, are all but the most idiotic Brexiteer backbenchers.