Boris's boosterism means he never learns | John Crace

The prime minister's first Downing Street press conference kept up his veneer of acting as if he knew what he was doing

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Let's take the positives first. There have been no changes in government policy on coronavirus in the past 24 hours. After the confusion of the past few days, weeks and months, that is in itself cause for celebration. A sign of some much needed stability in Westminster.

Boris Johnson's narcissism is an open secret. What's less clear is whether he is at heart just deeply cynical: a politician who is aware of his own failings and goes out of his way to conceal them. Or whether he is a man who is merely the product of his own imagination: bending reality to suit his personality. It's hard to know which is the more disturbing prospect. But then maybe it's a bit of both.