Until now, Boris Johnson has given the impression that rules and normal standards of behaviour do not apply to him. He probably thought it did not matter that the Owen Paterson affair looked deeply shady
think of Boris Johnson as a person, you have to admire his political survival skills. To reach the pinnacle of British politics, he weathered exposure as a liar and philanderer, and even humiliation as a Union-Jack twiddling buffoon stuck on a zip-wire. As prime minister, he has overseen a disastrous initial response to the pandemic and an endless series of debilitating rows with the European Union.
No one ever backed Mr Johnson for his loyalty to his friends and supporters. So it probably did not matter that this left those foot-dragging drain-trampers looking not just pro-corruption, anti-integrity and sheeplike, but also rather silly. They felt thrown under the bus. Under the wheels they were joined by Mr Paterson himself, who had just given a far-from-contrite television interview saying of his alleged offence that he “would not hesitate to do it again tomorrow”.
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