Analysis

What Boris Johnson said in his bitter resignation speech and what he really meant.

— Boris Johnson breaks from his party in a bitter resignation speech in which there is no sense of taking responsibility and no sense of apology.

Stats

Boris Johnson’s premiership – Worst resignation rate and one of the shortest tenures.

— Boris Johnson has announced his departure from office following a record number of ministerial resignations.

COMMENT

Boris remade Britain’s image as a mussy-haired wannabe with a slippery sense of propriety.

— Boris Johnson’s legacy: There is a sense of a country that is packaging and re-packaging shop-worn goods with a sales pitch that runs to superlatives.

Analysis

Boris Johnson’s nightmare day: How to read between the lines in resignation letters from government ministers.

— There was a sense of self-aggrandisement about the resignation letters sent by Sajid Javid and Rishi Sunak that led to Boris Johnson eventually resigning. Overall, there is so much material in all the letters sent to the PM that we could analyse them for years to come.

COMMENT

‘Them’s the breaks’: Boris adopts an American accent.

— To defy his moment of humiliation, Eton-educated Boris Johnson used a surprising American slang in his resignation speech.

UK Politics

Boris Johnson’s reluctant resignation.

— Boris Johnson’s resignation speech in full and the experts’ opinions.

OPINION

Get Borexit done.

— As the two words “I resign” have not crossed his lips and he is carrying on as though nothing had happened in a very disturbing way... Has Boris Johnson actually resigned?

UK Politics

Boris Johnson: Four key insights from recent polls can help us see where the crisis is heading.

— The prime minister’s personal popularity has plummeted but the people who decide how to replace him still can’t agree on a successor.

Analysis

Boris Johnson: A terminal case of hubris syndrome.

— He hardly has any government ministers and his own cabinet tried to force him to resign. What is going on?

OPINION

Pass the popcorn: The Tories are in meltdown.

— Rishi Sunak, Sajid Javid and others resigning now have been complicit in Boris Johnson’s trashing the standards expected in public office. They are as bad as he is. He is their creature.

Indyref2

Scottish independence: What has changed since the last referendum.

— If the UK continues down paths that further isolate it from the EU and the wider world stage, Scottish attitudes to the Union may harden. Especially because Boris Johnson is personally very unpopular in Scotland.

Justice

New Met Police legal action will get to the truth about the PM’s Partygate.

— The public have a right to know what really went on inside the Partygate investigation.

OPINION

Well, we are the people and we say yes.

— Boris Johnson and the UK Supreme Court can say no if they want to... Well, we say yes, and we are the people.

UK Politics

Wakefield and Tiverton and Honiton by-elections: Even Boris Johnson loyalists will now be worried for the next election.

— By-election defeats in Tiverton and Honiton and Wakefield will have shaken some Conservative MPs. If he survives until next year, Boris Johnson will need credible local election results.

Analysis

Northern Ireland protocol row could damage good faith needed for post-Brexit trade deals.

— Boris Johnson’s government’s handling of the Northern Ireland protocol could spell trouble for the UK’s post-Brexit trade negotiations. The process of rebuilding trust is far slower when the breach of trust has been coupled with deceit or denial.

Brexit

Brexit is shaming Britain.

— Professor Chris Grey’s detailed analysis of the NIPB in relation to the internal politics of the Tory Party and the wider politics of Brexit. But no amount of analysis can ignore the shame it brings to Britain.