FORMER prime minister Boris Johnson believes Trump’s stunning victory proves that his own political comeback is now inevitable.
Johnson, dismissed as a joke by the media and kicked off a US election broadcast last night for relentless self-promotion, has no reason not to think his own re-election is more than simply a matter of time.
He said: “It would seem that voters love a blustering, mendacious, egotistical charlatan. And who am I to deny them?
“Now our cousins across the Atlantic have agreed deposing Trump, once seen as a reassertion of sanity, was no more than a moment of madness we’ll surely follow suit. Let’s not forget Trump loved me and I him. It was a meeting of minds.
“There’s the inconvenient matter of becoming an MP again, damn our hidebound political system, but it’s no more than a formality. I shall soon ascend again, like Trump, like Napoleon, like Julius Caesar.
“The people of America have spoken, and soon there will be a corresponding echo from our small but mighty land. My place at his right hand is assured. Let’s get on with it.”
ITN political editor Robert Peston said: “I would love to be able to say he’s wrong.”
