‘A fire-eater who’s run out of fuel’: European press lays into Boris Johnson

Continental media are in no mood to donner un break to the British PM, sensing the beginning of the end'

For El Pais in Spain, his magic has vanished". For Liberation in France he is the only actor in the Boris Johnson show - which is, increasingly, a flop". In Germany, Der Spiegel asked how long Britain could last being governed almost exclusively by defiant optimism".

As the scandals mount, the approval ratings plunge, the electoral defeats accumulate, the rebellions multiply, his trusted Brexit lieutenant jumps ship and the Omicron variant runs rampant, continental media seem - to coin a phrase - in no mood to donner un break to Britain's beleaguered prime minister.