I do wonder what will happen after the tournament if we win it, Johnson and Downing Street will surely try to jump on the bandwagon with a drinks reception, meeting the players, etc. I guess they already are with some of their twitter posts over the past week or so.
But this government and the people who generally vote for its kind of politics are not particularly favourable to the players. I wonder if they would choose to make a political statement and turn down the invite, I know that I would and would certainly not shake hands with someone like Boris Johnson.
We had the obvious school meals debacle where the u-turn by the government was obviously only done because of the furore that Rashford caused.
Then you had Johnson, Patel and numerous other Tories all public defending racists being able to boo anti racist gestures and the taking of the knee with one Tory MP actually stating he would be boycotting games because of it. Southgate even had to write an open letter to the nation about it.