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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Kevin Maguire

'Boris Johnson's reign was always destined to end in chaos and humiliation'

Ending not with a bang but a Pincher, dead man lying Boris Johnson leaves as our worst recent Prime Minister.

Fibs, deceit, idiocy, incompetence, arrogance, errors, misjudgments and nauseating political corruption finally caught up with the charlatan.

Ministers, MPs and a Conservative Party that excused terrible behaviour and looked the other way are indelibly tainted after it made a pact with the blonde devil Johnson.

So, take the next Tory leader with a Pincher of salt, because they’re all condemned for enabling the charlatan to put a sex peer in a position of power. Johnson was a particularly poisonous rogue, a charlatan never fit to hold a uniquely influential post.

Sleaze and scandals are his life: cash-for-lobbying, Partygate, golden wallpaper, VIP lanes for Tory donors then drunken groper Chris Pincher were all disasters in Johnson’s DNA.

As are a bad Brexit, cost of living crisis, record NHS waiting lists, a collapsing judicial system and rail strikes.

Boris Johnson greeted by staff and family in No10 after delivering resignation speech (Andrew Parsons / No10 Downing Street)

The posh oaf who as a kid declared he’d be World King wanted to be PM primarily as somebody enjoying the trappings of high office, leading him to trash standards and public institutions.

The Tory King Leer playing the poor little victim in a woeful resignation speech outside No 10 betrayed no understanding or contrition for three years of trashing democracy.

His reign was always destined to end in chaos, indignity and humiliation when that is how he’s lived his life.

Britain deserves a fresh start with a general election so our country can do better. That’s the point Labour’s Keir Starmer will ram home every day from now until polling day, whenever that is.

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