The videos showed a typical summit: Volodymyr Zelensky next to Ukraine’s flag and Boris Johnson next to the Union Flag. But there’s a difference. Johnson is no longer the prime minister and was visiting Kyiv as a private citizen – yet was greeted and treated like he was still calling the shots. A video of the meeting, with rousingly patriotic music, has been released. ‘I will do whatever I can’ says BoJo: but with what? In what capacity did his summit with Zelensky take place?
Some may see this in the context of an attempted Boris Johnson comeback, but in the leading article in this week’s Spectator we make the case for his defence. Every Prime Minister wants a legacy, and what does Johnson have? A stunning election victory, yes, but his lockdowns took a wrecking ball to ten years of Tory achievement on welfare and reducing educational inequality. When you think of what could have been, it’s a tragedy.
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