We’re closing 2020 by republishing our ten most-read articles of the year. Here’s No. 1: Alex Massie’s article from May, in which he makes the case against Boris.
Danny Kruger, formerly Johnson’s political secretary and now the MP for Devizes, has – perhaps inadvertently – done the country some small service. In a note sent to newly-elected Tory MPs, Mr Kruger has reportedly advised his colleagues that ‘calling for Dominic Cummings to go is basically declaring no confidence in [the] prime minister.’
Well, yes, indeed. That is the point.
Because, in the end, this is not a story about Dominic Cummings but, rather, one about the Prime Minister. Even if we concede the possibility that he has not fully recovered from his own recent illness and, by making that concession, are tempted to afford him a greater measure of the benefit of the doubt than is traditionally granted to prime ministers, it remains mightily difficult to construct a coherent defence of the Prime Minister’s recent actions.
The spectacle of intelligent people deliberately peddling nonsense is often aggravating but it’s rarely as enraging as it is now
There is little escaping an obvious reality: this is a prime minister without clothes.
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