It is not Luxembourg’s duty to shield Boris Johnson from the public revulsion he has earned

Editorial: If other countries don’t feel compelled to censor their own people, to shut down their own streets, that is their choice

Xavier Bettel speaks to the press after meeting the British PM yesterday (EPA)

Inevitably, it took a matter of seconds for the two tales of Boris Johnson’s no-show press conference in Luxembourg to take hold.

On the one hand, the day after calling himself The Incredible Hulk, and in the midst of ongoing efforts to brand Jeremy Corbyn a chicken, the prime minister was too scared of the noise of about 200 anti-Brexit protesters to turn up to his own press conference.

The Incredible Hulk has, arguably, been overworked as a character, yet there remains no episode in the franchise in which he encounters a small group of shouty people, and decides to run away.