‘Vain, fickle, hypocritical’: how Europe sees Boris Johnson after partygate

European media paints devastating picture of Boris Johnson as emperor with no clothes

Partygate could mark the end of Boris Johnson, European media have concluded, painting a devastating picture of a vain, fickle, hypocritical opportunist" with an elastic relationship to the truth" who only ever played at being prime minister".

Germany's Suddeutsche Zeitung said in a brutal op-ed that it had only ever been a matter of time" before the British prime minister was exposed to one and all as the emperor with no clothes.