It's a quasi-philosophical question is that, who kicked elections into touch...After Corbyn had given Theresa May a nasty shock in 2017, the big guns both inside and outside the party came out for him in full force. He was no charismatic leader, for sure. However, like Michael Foot, he was one of that rare breed in politics, a person of principle.

Michael Foot doomed himself by wearing a jacket that wasn't a donkey jacket at the Cenotaph. Johnson leads a dissolute private life (lessee now...how many kids has he got...) and is a proven serial liar as well as a racist and a homophobe, but he can't doom himself no matter how hard he tries, not even by causing tens of thousands of needless deaths. Something to contemplate there, no?