The sense that he hates the whole business is helping to carry him through it – for all the mistakes that have been made.
If politicians are going to take voters with them, we need to be honest about the trade offs and develop policies to help those who stand to lose out.
But leaving the EU is a massive blunder – and both parties are turning their back on the national interest.
Prioritising teachers in the queue, as more school closures and tougher lockdowns loom, offers a potential way forward.
They screech in horror about a delay in total control of our own fisheries, but push for them to be handed back to the supertrawlers of the EU’s fishing fleets.
The present social contract was written when the number of taxpayers well outstripped the number of retirees. But times have changed.
If there’s a shift in England from the politics of culture to those of economics, don’t expect it to be mirrored in Scotland.
For the past decade, four in ten of those eligible have consistently failed to apply – the lowest take-up of any income-related entitlement.
The Government must speed up its vaccination programme, but until it understands the effect on transmission, tiers are here to stay.
If Johnson wants to be a historic Prime Minister, then he needs to be brave, resist the siren call of the Conservative orthodoxy and move to spend big.
Much the best way to embarrass its members at Westminster would be to hail them as friends and fellow members of the Establishment.
We have now secured 97 per cent of the trade value that we set out to reach agreements for first, beyond the EU. And there’s more to come.
The dubious legal basis for lockdown restrictions should be clarified by making its scope explicit.
The rise in hospital admissions has hammered the last nail into the coffin of the campaign to follow that country’s strategy.
We must make it strong enough to transcend the complacency, elitism and populism that threaten its very existence.