that remains to be seen. boris johnson was a colleague of yours, anne, when he was a journalist. do you think he will go quietly or will he put up a fight? he will do everything in his power not to go. he has lived through so many sandals and he has survived all of them and he will at some level believe that he can survive this one. the difficulty with this one is that it underlines something that people feel deeply about him and his party right now, which is that they you know, they don t act in everybody s interest, they act only in their own interests. overcoming that will be difficult. david, quickly to you. if he does go, could an indian-brit become prime minister? do you think britain is ready for a brown-skinned prime minister? yes, that s certainly possible. the big question the conservative party is whether it doubles down on what you called a sort of trumpian version or
if he does go, could an indian-brit become prime minister? do you think britain is ready for a brown-skinned prime minister? yes, that s certainly possible. the big question the conservative party is whether it doubles down on what you called a sort of trumpian version or british version of trumpism or whether it moves back towards the center. the labor party has moved back to the center, under new leadership, so we could be in for competitive politics of a more conventional kind. the side of the conservative party trashes the institutions of britain from the judiciary to the bbc is something that goes right against the traditions of that party even though i have never been a member of it or supporter of it. it s abandoned that for the moment and that has big questions for the center right politics. richard, i want you to pull back a little and i want to ask