Prime Minister Johnson: Seatbelts on, Boris got the job

And so it comes to pass. The nation that once painted the atlas in testosterone red must watch as Boris Johnson is ushered towards Downing Street as prime minister.

A cliched reference, one Johnson would appreciate as he is a “classical scholar”, to the legend that the emperor Caligula made one of his horses — Incitatus — a senator seems inevitable even if it would not be heard over the great hum of his dead predecessors spinning in fury in their graves.