16th June 2019

One advantage of being old - I’ve seen Tory and Labour governments come and go. As I wrote in An Englishwoman in America, each time it’s the same: the former lives within its means (to the fury of groups clamouring for more money); the latter borrows millions to throw money at every fashionable, deserving cause. I’ve seen PMs come and go. Never have we had such a morally-correct, honest and clean-living PM as Mrs May, but look how she was treated! And then along comes Boris. The pendulum’s swung full circle. Morally-correct, clean-living? No. But, unlike Mrs May, he’s the strength the UK needs right now plus chutzpah in abundance. But, unlike Corbyn, he loves his country. This week Corbyn rushed to defend Iran as he also does with ME terrorists and the Communists. He hates our monarchy, refusing to sing the national anthem, refusing to attend the state banquet for the Potus yet happily attended when the Chinese leader arrived. Of the two? I pick Boris.