There’s been a shift in tone, hasn’t there?
A couple of months ago, the tabloids howled about partygate like a hurricane. On 11 January, the Daily Express came at Johnson. “ENOUGH BORIS,” it screamed on its front page: “YOU MUST END PARTYGATE FARCE NOW.”
On Tuesday, after much delay, the police issued actual fines to partygoers, confirming what we’ve all known all along: rules were broken.
