Voters to give Boris verdict
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Stephen Pennells, Debt Justice Manchester
COLIN Morrison correctly describes Boris Johnson’s self-presentation to the Parliamentary Privilege Committee as ‘bluff and bluster’ (Is it game over for Johnson?, Viewpoints, Saturday, April 1).
Last month on Question Time – held at Newcastle-under-Lyme – Fiona Bruce asked the members of the audience to raise their hands if they believed that Boris Johnson was honest. Not a hand went up.
Mr Johnson is not yet in the same league as Mr Trump, but it is not for want of trying.
However, our tendency to personalise should be resisted. The party members who elected him as leader knew of his cavalier attitude to truth.
They voted for him because he backed Brexit, though it was obvious that he was only doing so because it was the path to power.
He had previously been a Remainer. Many Remainer MPs, including Theresa May, underwent similar conversions. They went along with a policy they knew to be wrong. They were dazzled by the vision of short-term electoral gains.
Now, the local elections are approaching. In practice they will be an assessment of the years of domination by Mr Johnson and the successors whose feet he put on the ladder.
A variety of questions come to mind. Do his former supporters wish to dissociate themselves? If they do, can they? Will he try for a comeback? Will a shrinkage of the Conservative vote boost the
Lib Dems and the Greens? Will it help the Reform Party as it campaigns for a more drastic Brexit?
It boils down to whether Boris Johnson will bring the Conservative Party, as it now is, down with him.
When we wake up on May 5, we might have some idea of the future political set-up.
It is not just Johnson who is being questioned at Westminster. It might be game over for his party.