Johnson won’t contest Tory job - A shameless abuse of democracy

IN the extremely unlikely event of Boris Johnson being asked to kneel before his monarch to be ennobled with one of those pompous-comic, Blandings Castle titles that seem debilitatingly quaint today, his choice of name would be irrelevant.

No matter how he might like to describe himself, he might always be known as the New Duke of York — Oh, The grand old Duke of York, He had ten thousand men; He marched them up to the top of the hill, And he marched them down again.

Johnson is not the first person, nor sadly will he be the last, to so spectacularly misuse his talents.