Terry Prone: Allegra Stratton can’t undo the damage — but at least she knows how to say sorry

As a proxy for Boris Johnson, she gets little public sympathy — but Allegra Stratton’s apology was flawless and simple, writes Terry Prone.

Allegra Stratton speaking outside her home in north London where she announced that she has resigned as an adviser to Boris Johnson. Picture: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire

SUNDAY

No snow. Earlier predictions that today would see us covered in snow prove false, and I find myself murmuring the first line of Dennis O’Driscoll’s wonderful poem about rain: