BoJo banished - Liz Truss down. Is Rishi next for the toaster? **threadbans in OP**

Keeping also in mind that time he car-crashed a press conference into the benefits of making Britain like “Peppa Pig World”

He might have thought using a reference from his toddler’s TV viewing was a clever escape but came across as a desperate gambit devoid of any real planning.

(Also Peppa Pig World is a bizarre hellscape where everyone lives on hills and the entire economy depends on one over-worked rabbit. Was he paying any attention to that show?)

As to the name of the thread, yeah, possibly he's next for the toaster.

House of cards stuff. Sunak should just say "f*ck this for a game of soldiers" and quit and enjoy his money.

Sunak was born in Southampton to parents of Indian descent who immigrated to Britain from East Africa in the 1960s. He was educated at Winchester College, studied philosophy, politics and economics at Lincoln College, Oxford, and earned an MBA from Stanford University in California as a Fulbright Scholar. During his time at Oxford University, Sunak undertook an internship at Conservative Central Office (now Conservative Campaign Headquarters), and joined the Conservative Party. After graduating, Sunak worked for Goldman Sachs and later as a partner at the hedge fund firms The Children's Investment Fund Management and Theleme Partners.

Johnson, as others have pointed out, does not speak fluent Italian, but he can order a beer and ask the way to the beach. His French is fluent, if heavily accented. His reputation in classics is wholly unmerited; he can recite bits of Greek verse the way you or I might be able to repeat "Báidín Fheilimí" but, even then, he frequently omits lines or gets the in the wrong order.

Johnson's books — now, sit down, this may come as a shock — are not written by Johnson. He employs ghost-writers. They are usually credited in the acknowledgements as "researchers" but, in fact, they produce the bulk of the text. Johnson's contribution is to suggest ideas they might express (they are free to reject his ideas, and sometimes do) and to lend his name to the title page. A second "researcher", or sometimes more than one, is employed to edit the first draft text into something that resembles Johnson's journalistic style. (This isn't hard for a competent writer to imitate, by all accounts.) Johnson does retain the right of final approval or veto, but to exercise it he would have to read the book. He often doesn't.

I don't want to knock Johnson's talents. He's a showman, and a very good one.