Boris’ demolition derby comes to its conclusion

When Chris Eubank drove his 10-wheel American truck to Downing Street in a destructive protest against the Iraq war in 2003 little did he know that his very literal actions would be followed by the metaphorical ones of Boris Johnson some 16 years later.

Pulling up outside the gates he declared to bemused police officers “you must arrest me” before embarking on a 30-minute loop of Parliament square which culminated in him reversing into a delivery van and his eventual detainment.

Just a month before that BoJo had declared: “I am a bit of a fan of the European Union. If we did not have one, we would invent something like it.”

Boxing legend Eubank is now an American sheriff and Boris is the Eurosceptic Prime

Minister of Britain. How times change.

This week Boris’ demolition derby came to an abrupt halt in front of the polished black door of number

10, “Aloha” came the cry from the cab of the juggernaut as cyclists untangled themselves from its axles and staff rushed to right tipped over plant pots and mangled benches.

Boris’ leadership campaign has already cost the career of Sir Kim

Darroch, the ambassador to the US outed as a sound judge of character by a Mail On Sunday splash but then shoved under the wheels of the

Boris wagon.

Johnson point-blank rejected any suggestions that his utter failure to support the experienced civil servant during a debate with rival Jeremy Hunt may have left Sir Kim feeling like his position was untenable.

But even his biggest supporters can surely see his bizarre turns of phrase and bumbling responses are easily misinterpreted and a less than desirable trait for a leading politician let alone Prime Minister?

Language which costs people their livelihoods and, in the case of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, their liberty is not a quirk of personality it is dangerous.

That is why Boris Johnson is unfit for office and that’s without mentioning the many times he’s been exposed as a liar.