The coronavirus may yet bring down the Tory charlatan, who now looks more like a bemused bystander than a reassuring leader. Labour hopeful Lisa Nandy attacking the “real shambles” of a Tory Government will strike a chord with an anxious public. It is Britain’s misfortune to be led by a lightweight (politically speaking) at a moment of unique national danger. Johnson and the Brexit Britain he shaped are largely ignored onlookers in this international nightmare, cut off from Europe and shunned by Trump’s US. The fear in 2020 is that Johnson’s timid Tories, marooned on the wrong side of the argument then as now, will sacrifice otherwise healthy firms.

Source: Daily Mirror March 15, 2020 20:15 UTC