Terry Prone: Johnson may surprise us and govern positively in the next few years

The day Margaret Thatcher took her ridiculously refurbished voice into number 10 Downing Street, she was determined to make the world a better place.

She wanted to do the best for Britain. She really did. But, as everybody on the left saw it, she was the personification of evil and nothing good could come of her period as prime minister, which, they prayed, would be short despite her daunting majority, which was roughly half what Boris Johnson boasts today.