Irish Examiner View: Boris Johnson is a liar and a cheat

His willingness to lie is matched only by his capacity for self-serving unilateral action, even if it breaches international obligations.

The one constant in Boris Johnson’s professional life has been telling lies.

IN Keith Waterhouse’s 1959 novel Billy Liar, the main character spends his time indulging in fantasies and dreams of life in the big city as a writer. There was an Irish dramatised version of the book, Liam Liar, written by dramatist Hugh Leonard which tells the tale of a lazy, wildly inventive, daydreamer with an inability to tell the truth.

It is a pity Mr Leonard is no longer with us because he might have been tempted to write Boris Liar and relocate the drama to 10 Downing Street, the residence of the UK prime minister.