I mentioned here recently that to my mind Boris Johnson bears a fairish similarity to Dr Faustus, as Christopher Marlowe portrayed him: selling his soul only to then waste his time in futile and silly gestures.
The Conservative party is one of the only political parties whose leader seems to rather dislike its own voters
Perhaps I can now add Rishi Sunak as another possible stand-in for that role.
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