Showman Johnson hopes his EU humiliation and the £8.3bn squandered on no-deal plans will be forgotten. It must not be If you really want to know how a magic trick is done, then stop looking where the magician wants you to look.Ignore the spectacle and the theatre, designed to distract the audience; don’t listen to the patter, but watch what the hands are doing. And what is true for magicians is doubly so for politicians. Boris Johnson has the nation focused on the drama of a Christmas election rather than on this week’s humiliation over Brexit, but we should have learned by now to look at what the government is doing rather than what the great showman is saying. Continue reading…
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