Boris Johnson deserves a place in British political history – not as the prime minister who ‘got Brexit done’, but as the premier who showed how threadbare the rules that are supposed to protect British democracy really are.
Johnson was the first prime minister to have broken the law while in office. He doled out seats in the House of Lords to his political donors, and criminalised protest and dissent.
Johnson’s reign ended when his Conservative colleagues decided that it was politically expedient for him to go. But the opaque, anti-democratic system that enabled him remains firmly in place.
