Isabel Hardman Isabel Hardman

Boris has more in common with Corbyn than he thinks

Both stand on an anti-politics, anti-establishment platform

issue 14 September 2019

Boris Johnson’s opponents love to accuse him of using the ‘Trump playbook’. Some on the left have become so obsessed with this comparison that they’ve even demanded that the Prime Minister be impeached. But over the past few weeks, Johnson’s behaviour has borne a far closer resemblance to a man he claims to look down on: Jeremy Corbyn.

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