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Johnson is the only person in government not answerable to somebody else, and he seems to rather like it
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Even when read and reread, the verdict of Kathryn Stone, the parliamentary commissioner for standards, on Boris Johnson’s freebie holiday is hard to understand, in any sense: “The commissioner did not conclude that Mr Johnson’s register entry was inaccurate since, as she notes, she was unable to conclude what Mr Johnson’s register entry should have contained.”
It’s an
Alice in Wonderland sort of world when a prime minister can get away with breaking parliamentary rules because the authorities have neither the power, nor, perhaps, the inclination, to get him to tell the whole truth. And so, on a day when all eyes are on a rather significant football match coming up on Sunday, Johnson slips away, criticised but basically unscathed, from yet another scandal.