Can Johnson do a Trump?
Boris Johnson has flagged up an attempt do a Trump or a de Gaulle: to position himself as the outsider hit by an establishment conspiracy, the better to come back later. Johnson has resigned “for now” from Parliament to pre-empt a parliamentary committee verdict on “Partygate”, and has floated a tax-cut, harder-Brexit stance against Rishi Sunak. A possible game plan for Johnson is to get back into parliament just before a 2024 general election, or just after, then seek to replace a defeated Sunak as Tory leader. We’d have to know more about the inside of the Tory party, and possible crises in...