Johnson will drop the North from the union to save Brexit

The Tory leadership frontrunner would happily throw his allies under a bus if it advanced his own ambitions

Columnists are running out of adjectives to describe Boris Johnson, the odds-on favourite to replace Theresa May as the next leader of the Conservative party and prime minister. Disturbing, ludicrous, reckless, cowardly, opportunistic, self-serving and disingenuous have all been used to describe the frontrunner for the keys to number ten.

Boris Johnson is first and foremost pro-Boris, with a long history of flip-flopping depending on what he judges to best for his political ...