Boris Johnson’s peculiar conservative conversion

In his most recent column for the Mail, Boris Johnson fires a shot at, among other things, ‘the leftie twittersphere’. Lest we forget, that would be the same Boris Johnson that, during his time as prime minister, told us there was ‘nothing wrong with being woke’; who seemed remarkably unbothered about mass illegal immigration; who blithely nodded through the Bank of England printing funny money like there was no tomorrow (you’ll never guess, but it turned out there was, and we are now living in that tomorrow). He even, bizarrely, described the invasion of Ukraine as ‘a perfect example of toxic masculinity’.

Is there something buried under Downing Street? A cursed Viking funeral longboat? Some kind of electronic device that projects a Tory-damping field? Maybe even a chunk of anti-Tory kryptonite, glowing blue rather than green, planted by Gordon Brown in April 2010?

Because Boris is not the only Conservative who suddenly remembers that they are a Conservative the moment, or at least not very long after, they exit the cabinet.