Boris Johnson plays up Remainer ‘collusion’ – but what if he is the treasonous one?

There has been speculation that Viktor Orban has been lobbied by Johnson and his team to use his veto in the EU parliament to force through a no deal. Would that be foreign collusion?

Might treason be a word that comes back to haunt both Trump and Johnson? (AFP)

Only an irresponsible fool would confect the accusation of treachery.

Any doubt about this died yesterday at the bijou hand of the president. Trump concluded a typically thoughtful dawn chorus tweet by demanding that the Democrat leading the congressional investigation into his diplomatic dealings with Ukraine be questioned about treason.

Here, we are more circumspect with the language, as the Mail on Sunday confirmed the previous day. It studiously avoided the T word when filling its front and inside pages with a subtler take on the same accusation.