He offered them Wagner but gave them Offenbach. History’s verdict on Napoleon III serves also as a fitting epitaph for Boris Johnson. The prime minister sold voters a vision of a second Churchill but delivered only, well, a first Johnson.
We are into the final days of the Johnson era; maybe the final hours. But it is over. Tuesday’s (Wednesday AEST) resignations of his chancellor and health secretary started an unstoppable flood. The only unanswered question at the time of writing is the mechanism of his exit.
