How much longer do we have to pretend that Brexit might work?

Persevering with this policy, as Labour suggests, is as bad for the country as persevering with this charlatan prime minister

My Irish mother taught me always to try to see the good in people. But it has to be admitted that the attempt to see the good in Alexander Boris" Johnson would, in another of her favourite sayings, try the patience of Job".

It is already a commonplace in this country and around the civilised world that our prime minister is a charlatan on an industrial scale. John Major knew what he was about when declaring, as a prime minister himself, that Johnson should not even be allowed to fight a parliamentary seat.