Those who understand Boris Johnson best most fear the damage he could do on his way out

It’s goodbye to the worst prime minister any of us has ever known — and frankly, good riddance, writes Gaby Hinsliff

Boris Johnson resigned on Thursday following an exodus of ministers. File picture

WHEN this nightmare is over — and it is over for Boris Johnson, but not yet for the rest of us — the Conservative Party owes the British public a grovelling apology.

It should hang its head in shame for foisting on the country a man so wholly unfit for office that he had to be dragged from it kicking and screaming and threatening to burn everything to the ground.