‘Kamikaze’ Boris sets his sights on Sunak revenge

There is no aspect of politics or public life that is any more than just a game for Johnson, and taking Sunak down with him would certainly count as a victory, writes Tom Peck

The faux candour of the last 24 hours carries the nauseating whiff that is the essence of the man (PA Wire)

Boris Johnson, like every other tedious narcissist you have met, knows no other way of being than to make everything about him.

He wrote a biography of Churchill, yet managed to make it a biography of Boris Johnson. He has been paid a huge advance to write a biography of Shakespeare, and is regularly mocked for still not having submitted it, more than half a decade beyond the deadline.

Your entry-level pisstake is that this is because he is lazy or disorganised, though neither of these criticisms is especially true. The real answer is that, be it consciously or subconsciously, he has been busy accumulating what he imagines will be the required life experience to make the Shakespeare book, also, a book about himself.