Business has good reason to fear Boris Johnson’s Brexit plans | William Keegan

The favourite for Downing Street has aggravated the uncertainty that is undermining confidence and hitting sterling

Wimbledon fortnight brings back happy memories of growing up in that pleasant suburb. But the recent news that the leading pretender to the Conservative throne was told by his girlfriend to "get out of my flat" stirs a particular memory: of the number of offenders brought before the courts who would be described in the Wimbledon Borough News as being "of no fixed abode".

It was therefore a stroke of genius for Private Eye to put a picture of Alexander "Boris" Johnson outside No 10 Downing Street with the caption "I really need somewhere to live."

His budgetary plans are so wild that he undermines any Conservative arguments about the budgetary dangers of a Labour government