Time to go Boris

Today the Sunday Mirror says now is the time to end the shambles that is Boris Johnson’s premiership. Tory MPs may be holding fire until Sue Gray drops the bombshell they hope her report into No10 parties will be. And Westminster and beyond awaits eagerly.

But, regardless of what the report says, we have seen enough of the PM to know the agony of living under his administration must end.

The Sunday Mirror has catalogued his mistakes, misdeeds and misjudgments, week after week. The errors bringing misery to millions.

Last JANUARY we marked the milestone of 100,000 Covid deaths – at least 20,000 of them in care homes the PM failed to protect.

In MARCH, Jennifer Arcuri told of her four-year affair with Mr Johnson, revealing a man with the morality of a polecat.

In APRIL, we showed him putting the nation’s safety at risk by stubbornly insisting on using an insecure private phone.

In MAY, we published details of Mr Johnson’s dodgy dealings with a Tory donor to wallpaper his Downing Street flat.

In OCTOBER, he was blithely holidaying in a Spanish Costa as Brits struggled with the cost of living. His climate change hypocrisy was exposed when his flight on a private jet dumped 21 tons of carbon into the atmosphere.

In NOVEMBER, we caught him on a train without the mask he told the rest of us to wear. In December, we chronicled Partygate, the final straw likely to break this chameleon’s back.

And that’s just the hoard we have uncovered.

Boris Johnson is a terrible prime minister and a worse human being.

Not our words, but those of former International Development Secretary Rory Stewart, who sat in Cabinet with him.

The Tory Party created this monster. Leaders Michael Howard and David Cameron gave Mr Johnson jobs. Theresa May handed him the Foreign Office.

BLUNDERS

He failed in all of them but Tory MPs and party members nevertheless gave him the country by electing him PM. They cynically saw Mr Johnson as a vote winner.

Now they are turning on him for the equally cynical reason that voters are fed up to the back teeth with him.

Mr Johnson’s one success is the vaccine programme, but it will not save him.

We accept he was not alone in failing to see a virus slipping out of China to engulf the world. But he can be blamed for the blundering which followed.

He should have fired Dominic Cummings the moment the aide broke lockdown rules but he delayed. He should have sacked Matt Hancock for the same offence but he dithered.

Attempting to change the Commons standards rules to save sleazy

pal Owen Paterson was unforgivable. It should not have taken 22-year-old footballer Marcus Rashford to point out that denying children free school meals during holidays was cruel.

There was not a Tory MP who did not grasp that the £120million they would cost was a mere pea on the plate of the £300billion Rishi Sunak was spending on Covid funding. Yet Mr Johnson refused to budge. Then he U-turned.

It should not have taken upset children to spot the algorithms used for their exams gave false results. Mr Johnson refused to budge. Then he U-turned.

The PM never knows whether he is coming or going. Which is why going would be the only honourable course.

His excuses for the No10 parties do not wash. Whatever Ms Gray says, we know enough already.

Which is why this newspaper, on behalf of the British people, echoes the call by Tory grandee David Davis: In

the name of God, go.