Boris has tested his audience for too long. It’s time to exit stage right | Barbara Ellen

Divorce might make him less attractive to some but most of us made up our minds long ago

The burning question was: would the news of Boris Johnson’s divorce/infidelities ruin his chances of becoming prime minister? After all the political scheming, brazen lying, self-serving ambition and outright incompetence, would it be his personal troubles (affairs, grotty treatment of women and everyone around him) that finally brought him down? The answer was no… but also, confusingly, yes.

A Survation poll for the Daily Mail, the first since the divorce announcement, suggested that infidelity, people thought, didn’t make Johnson unfit to be PM. However, 30% of all voters would be less likely to vote Conservative if Johnson were leader, against 21% who would vote for him – indicating that it would be harder for the Conservatives to win the next election with Johnson as leader.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2CCcQkN