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History will wonder how we trusted Boris with Britain

22 June 2019

4:30 PM

22 June 2019

4:30 PM

I am besieged by media folk asking when I shall make good on a four-year-old threat to flee to Buenos Aires should Boris Johnson become prime minister. How can I get on to a flight, I ask, when so many other voters are already waitlisted? In truth, however, we are being served successive courses in a national banquet of self-harm, too grisly to merit jokes.

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