Less than three years after a landslide election victory, Boris Johnson leaves office as he governed: glibly and without introspection or shame. He spent most of this summer of crises — replete with record inflation and record temperatures — on holiday abroad or at Chequers, the prime minister’s sumptuous country house. He was seen traveling in a Typhoon fighter jet, giving a wonky thumbs-up from the cockpit like some blond, British version of Tom Cruise’s Maverick, and embarked on a quasi-royal farewell tour of the country. “When the herd moves,” he said of his dismissal, “it moves.” The insinuation is that he is not of the herd. He is something more exceptional.
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