The man is Teflon coated, there are so many lies and dishonesty, half truths and fudging- not to mention blatant mis-management and incompetence, poor leadership, cronyism and sleaze- and yet he blithely waves it all aside (and is allowed to). He could (and probably has) broken the law, but will get away with it.
He can lie to parliament, and will probably get away with it.
He can break the law, rules and guidelines and seems to be able to use “not knowing” as an excuse. In my profession ignorance of something you ought to have known, or in a situation where you are ultimately responsible, is not deemed an acceptable excuse. Seems if you are held to lower standards than virtually anybody else. Pretty shameful state of affairs.
But still, he “got Brexit done” (regardless of whether it was done well, but get- he hit an arbitrary deadline, to hang with the consequences) and is a “likeable” bumbling persona…. So who cares?!
I think the persona is utterly contrived- he may not be fit to be Prime minister and is clearly utterly lacking in integrity and honesty, the government is largely incompetent and poorly managed from top down etc- but I don’t believe the bumbling, slightly eccentric persona. He’s intelligent, clearly, and obviously pretty ruthless… he’s got away with too much, for too long, and few come off better when they get into a tussle with him for that not to be the case. It’s just that the only thing Boris really cares about is Boris, having power and his ego- a number of his decisions make sense when seen from that angle, even when they appear utterly terrible from practically every other viewpoint.