Andrew Gimson On The Boris Campaign

He writes:

"It is not that Boris became serious – in my view he has always been seriously gifted, energetic and ambitious – but that he began to evince an unexpected steadiness. Gone were the gaffes on which the press feasted. In their place was a grasp of policy the equal of Ken's, allied to a far greater determination to do something about questions, such as knife crime, on which Ken had nothing new to say."

The equal of Ken's? Don't know about that! He's right about knife crime, though. From a new chapter in his Boris biog.

Comments

[angela]

Crikey, Boris as PM! Now there is a thought. He did look very statesmanlike when he was sitting near David Cameron just before he quit the Commons and he was nodding agreement like a cross between Winston Churchill and Lloyd George, it was funny.