Boris really is turning into Blair

WELL now, are any of you beginning to wonder if I wasn’t right about Alexander ‘Boar-iss’ Johnson being the new Blair? Why, he even has similar problems with his holidays. Where is the rule that says powerful people must have luxury long-haul vacations? Harold Wilson used to spend his summers on the Isles of Scilly. Harold Macmillan liked a grouse-moor. Clement Attlee paddled on Welsh beaches. Margaret Thatcher regarded holidays as a form of torture. I’d prefer any of these to a man who takes his girlfriend to Mustique at the expense of, well, who? He may say that Winston Churchill was given to grand getaways. But Churchill was the saviour of the nation. He could do what he liked.