PMQs verdict: Boris Johnson terminates his premiership – but threatens to be back | Andrew Sparrow
Wednesday's farewell at the dispatch box was revealing for three reasons
Sir Lindsay Hoyle said when he was elected Speaker that he would not let PMQs run for up to 40 or 50 minutes, as his predecessor John Bercow used to, but on Wednesday afternoon Hoyle made an exception to mark Boris Johnson's final day at the despatch box.
Towards the end, after a long and often tedious session that mostly illuminated how threadbare Johnson's legacy was, Hoyle must have been thinking it might have been better to pull the plug at 12.30 sharpish. But then, in his final answer, to Sir Edward Leigh, Johnson suddenly shifted gear and said something interesting.
I want to use the last few seconds to give some words of advice to my successor, whoever he or she may be.
Number one: Stay close to the Americans, stick up for the Ukrainians, stick up for freedom and democracy everywhere. Cut taxes and deregulate wherever you can to make this the greatest place to live and invest, which it is.
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