Look even if we suspected that the whole rest of the cabinet were behaving like this- which obviously we don’t and they definitely aren’t -but anyway- we have at the very least strong evidence of personal volatility and shiftiness right here, in this case of Boris Johnson, on top of all the other political failures in Johnson’s career. It’s not an argument to say we don’t know what others are up to, or he’s the probably best of a bad bunch.
Johnson’s long term poor character has been shown in his caricaturing racist or sexist views in his writing, his decades of sexual incontinence and his shameful treatment of his children and their mothers (especially if it is true that he has not acknowledged a child) not to mention all the years of lying that will have gone into covering that up, evading the security detail which is dangerous to national interests and now while he is still married to his wife- having the type of screaming rows with a woman only five years older than his own daughter, that get the police called to the scene. That’s what we want in Number 10?
It’s not ok to ignore it, minimise it, excuse it. We expect and need so much more from public figures and leaders. He has already shown abundant evidence of the wrong qualities for someone we’d need to trust to lead our country and we desperately need decent grownups in charge. He should be sacked or resign and have his candidacy for party leadership withdrawn.