Johnson must go.

The agony goes on. Johnson limps on. Hanging on to power is all. The latest proverb doing the rounds is: "When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace becomes a circus." I have seen better run circuses, and the No10 circus is spending all its time and efforts trying to keep its hold on the slippery pole. There are headline grabbing announcements which promise great things but are empty promises. New money is recycled old money.

Meanwhile the porkies keep coming out. Last week Johnson told us that the UK has "the fastest growth in the G7" (technically true but only because its economy collapsed further in the pandemic); that the government has cut crime by 14 per cent while it has gone up by 14 per cent, and that "more people are in work now than before the pandemic began" when you include the self-employed, numbers are down 600,000. We have also had the false accusations that Labour leader Keir Starmer was involved in the failure to prosecute paedophile Jimmy Savile. Unfortunately for our democracy this behaviour is not new.

Leadership and government are based around trust. Populism and its attacks on the truth are the greatest threat to our great liberal democracy. Johnson has introduced a toxic culture into our politics which must be eradicated. The Conservative Party by its collusion also bears responsibility. The longer Johnson limps on, the more our real problems will be ignored from the cost of living crisis to that of social care. Every day Johnson clings on, the more our country suffers. Boot Johnson out.