In the Greek tragedies so beloved of Mr Johnson himself, fate, and inevitability plays an important role. One of them says: “Boris is a genuine tragedy. This was all inevitable. We knew how it would play out, but we are still surprised and shocked about how dreadful it is. All our hard work pissed away.”
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