Johnson fails the morality test, miserably

Posted at 9.45 am UK time

An excerpt from my article in The Conservative Woman today, titled ‘Johnson fails the morality test, miserably’:

Following the most recent gossip about Johnson’s ‘love’ life, a number of Right-wing columnists have written that the PM’s philandering ‘doesn’t really make a difference’ (Rod Liddle in the Sunday Times), that virtue doesn’t matter in such a position, and that Johnson ‘looks positively saintly’ compared with some of our past PMs anyway (Dominic Sandbrook, UnHerd).

Even if other commentators took the opposite view, I doubt if the papers would have published them.

Read the full piece here.