Boris is gone. What now for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe?

What’s one woman’s life worth as the great battles about Brexit rage? Nothing at all, apparently, as Boris Johnson’s indifference towards the fate of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe shows.

The British mother is, you will recall, being held in an Iranian prison on trumped up spying charges. She says she was just visiting Iran, and there is no reason to disbelieve her. Johnson took it upon himself to risk provoking the country’s religious dictatorship into extending her sentence when he told a parliamentary committee that she had been in Iran to train journalists.

He later apologised in the Commons, retracting ‘any suggestion she was there in a professional capacity’. But the damage was done, and in any case, who expects good old Boris to master the detail of diplomacy or Brexit or anything at all? He comes up with the gags and postures. The little people must live with the consequences.