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By all the laws of political gravity, Boris Johnson is doomed

BY all the laws of political gravity, Boris is doomed – clinging by his fingertips until Dominic Cummings chooses to finish him off with hobnailed boots.

Even a barrage of “red meat” policies to tempt unhappy voters is unlikely to save this Prime Minister.

By all the laws of political gravity, Boris Johnson is doomed

If so, the most remarkable politician of our age will be paying a high price indeed for a shockingly ill-timed BYOB party.

It’s all his own fault, of course. He has ducked all the rules of survival, made it up as he went along and refused the best advice from well-meaning allies.
He will be evicted just as he leads us from the pandemic which almost cost him his life.

The shortest Downing Street reign in living memory will end as the last Covid shackles are broken and the economy bursts back with the fastest recovery in Europe.

BoJo’s many enemies in the Tory party and elsewhere, especially the Remainiacs, the Whitehall Blob and the BBC, are already licking their lips.

They will be joined by ungrateful Red Wall MPs who owe him their unexpected seats in Parliament.

Their joy may be unconfined. It may also be short lived.

When Boris goes, I predict a wave of “Sellers’ Remorse” unrivalled since the expulsion of Margaret Thatcher and the Tory schism which led to 13 years in outer darkness. Yes, we may be disgusted with BoJo and his Downing Street troops for throwing a party while the rest of us were locked down.

It was unforgivable for the Queen to be left to mourn alone at her husband’s funeral while No 10 staff were nursing an illicit hangover.

Voters are entitled to be furious with a PM who believes rules are for little people.

This was just the latest act of madness in a string of unforced calamities.

But was it a hanging offence?

Colourless dud

Some are comparing Boris’s plight with the comeuppance of Prince Andrew and vaxx maverick tennis player Novak Djokovic — an exaggeration, you might think, in Andrew’s case.

Sacking a recently elected Prime Minister who actually delivered Brexit — an historic feat against all the odds — is a gigantic step.

It may now be unstoppable. We are in a feeding frenzy stoked by the BBC, which can see its publicly funded gravy train grinding to a halt. But if the Tories are in trouble, who will ride to the rescue?

BoJo’s successor might be Chancellor “Dishy Rishi” Sunak or Foreign Secretary Liz “The Fizz” Truss.

Some fear Rishi is too inexperienced to stand up to powerful civil service mandar- ins. Truss, despite mimicking Margaret Thatcher, looks a bit flaky.

The only real winner is Sir Keir Starmer, the man who backed looney Leftie Jeremy Corbyn as PM, fought to overturn the 2016 Brexit referendum and now wraps himself shamelessly in the Union Flag.

And who, with some brass neck, also drank booze at close quarters with allies in mid-lockdown.

Starmer is a colourless dud who has bungled every major challenge since becoming Opposition leader.

Had he been PM, we would be in the same Covid crisis as EU countries such as France and Holland. There would have been no AstraZeneca vaccine. Sage would be running the country. The UK would not be one of the world’s fastest recovering economies. Our growth would not be better than Germany’s. Had Cabinet gloomsters Michael Gove or Sajid Javid been PM, Christmas would not have been so merry.

BoJo, it seems, got some big decisions right. Not that you would think so from the BBC’s drumbeat of death and disaster.

True, the PM should have banned Downing Street’s Wine O’clock parties the moment he saw that fridge being carried over his front step.

Unfinished business

Few believe he and party-loving Carrie were blind to non-stop bashes below stairs.

But dumping an election winner barely two years after a landslide victory will not cure Tory woes.

The leadership election will be sulphurous and perhaps inconclusive.

The party risks defeat in the next general election and the advent of a Starmer-led left-wing government.

Britain will be divided once again between a majority who voted Brexit and a powerful minority bent on taking us back into the European Union.

For those who fought to reverse the biggest popular vote ever, this is unfinished business.

With Boris gone, this deadly political game will be on all over again.

Djokavic deported

FANS of TV’s Nothing To Declare will know Novak Djokavic never stood a chance of a record 21st Grand Slam.

Nobody gets away with ticking the wrong box, whether breaking Australia’s strict hygiene rules or claiming someone else signed their forms.

The decision to chuck him out saved the world’s greatest tennis player on-court humiliation by angry fans.

That accolade now awaits Aussie PM Scott Morrison at looming elections after imprisoning 25million Aussies for two years in the pointless pursuit of Zero Covid.