Boris Johnson asks voters to decide if he’s a fool or just a cynic. What a choice!

Boris is at it again this morning. Revealing, that is, why he cannot be trusted with office. To be charitable, I wouldn’t trust many newspaper columnists with the keys to power.  But, of course, most Grub Street residents have no interest in being crowned Emperor. Boris does. Which is why his columns for the Daily Telegraph are so troublesome.

You will remember the recent occasion when he suggested the burden of proof in criminal trials be reversed. That was revealing, but in a bad way. So is today’s column in which he proposes setting quotas for immigrants from other EU countries.

As is so often the case you are left to wonder which is worse: Boris meaning this or Boris not meaning this but writing it anyway. Neither answer is reassuring. The former would indicate a profound foolishness; the latter a deep cynicism. What larks.

It is, in any case, a crackpot notion not least since it undermines, indeed demolishes, one of the EU’s central achievements: the free movement of people’s throughout the continent.