Terry Prone: After Clownfall, Boris Johnson will resume his highly profitable media career

Nearly gone but not forgotten — because he's box office, editors will pay for the disgraced prime minister's raucous nonsense

Boris Johnson delivering his banal ‘them’s the breaks’ statement on Thursday watched by his ostensibly loyal colleagues and his wife, Carrie Johnson. Picture: Gareth Fuller/PA

The thing about guys who don’t obey the rules while they are in office is that they don’t obey the rules having been turfed out of office either. Nor do some of them bother themselves defending their reputation. Witness Boris coming out to the plinth and doing his “them’s the breaks” statement. His departure oration made those who loathe him even happier at his departure.

It was profoundly satisfying in its disengaged banality and lack of ideological underpinning. Like a cheap necklace breaking, none of the beads connected to each other and none was even worth pursuing under the couch.