Boris Johnson's time as prime minister will come with one upside—he will not have to deal with a troublemaker named Boris Johnson
“I CAN’T imagine Boris in charge of a whelk stall, let alone the economy and nuclear weapons!” So David Laws, then a Liberal Democrat MP, dispensed with the ludicrous notion that Boris Johnson might become prime minister one day. Seven years after he wrote that quip in his diary, the joke is on Mr Laws—and the rest of Britain.
In Mr Johnson’s world there is seldom any need for compromise. Not because he believes that every negotiation must end in defeat for one side, but because he is uninterested in details. In 2018 he stepped down as foreign secretary in order to oppose Mrs May’s deal. His resignation letter argued that Britain had scored a bad deal because of its “needless self-doubt” and chuntered about the dangers posed to female cyclists by lorries-a problem that he inaccurately blamed on the EU.
It is hard to know what kind of prime minister he will be. The problem is not that Mr Johnson has left no clues in his writing or his past behaviour. It is closer to the opposite: he has left so many clues, which are often contradictory, that we are hardly the wiser. He is a pro-business tax-cutter who is reported to have said “fuck business”, a supporter of immigration who insults women in burkas. Studying his political circle does not help, because Mr Johnson does not have one.
Mr Johnson’s shambolic, showboating style is not just a way of getting his message across. Often, it is all the message he has. In the last days of the leadership race he brandished a kipper and argued that “Brussels bureaucrats” had forced a fish dealer in the Isle of Man to pack his product in a plastic ice pillow. Never mind that the Isle of Man is neither in Britain nor the EU and that his claim was quickly rubbished.
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