Potential PM told me what ‘woke’ meant

It reached the point long ago when the government was so utterly terrible that criticism became tiring. Even that played into Boris Johnson’s hands. He weaponised his incompetence. As he stood at the lectern, he said his regime had endured “relentless sledging”.

When the leader of the country is so bad at their job, makes so many mistakes and has no desire to improve, it remains the duty of the press to hold them to account.

For the public, fatigue soon kicked in. For some, legitimate reporting looked like a remainiac conspiracy.

The scandals kept coming and the negative coverage could be nothing but relentless.

And what did he achieve? He bent the rules for a reason, surely? Like a rogue general forgetting a few parts of the Geneva Convention but winning the war.

Some will point to Brexit. I’ll give him the vaccine rollout, but with care homes and trust-busting parties you’re looking at a net loss.

As he told anyone who would listen, he had a mandate of 14 million and a colossal majority.

But that makes his complete failure to do anything of note all the more damning.

There were comparisons to Theresa May, but she’d squandered her lead with a snap election.

Johnson can’t even use that as an excuse.

He’ll go down as the worst PM in recent history; a Fisher Price Winston Churchill for the Tiktok generation. Tom Tugendhat wants to be the next PM. In a crowded field of 10 reasonably wellknown candidates and Rehman Chishti he stands out as the ‘fresh start’ option.

As I’ll tell anyone who will listen, he was the first person to tell me what ‘woke’ meant – socially aware and up-to-trend, he said.

Here’s hoping his new era sees the Tories dump the ‘anti-woke’ culture war nonsense.

Property tycoon and “very good negotiator” Fergus Wilson has already courted him, emailing to ask to be flown to Moscow to parlay with Putin.

‘He’ll go down as the worst PM in recent history; a Fisher Price Winston Churchill for the Tiktok generation...’