How on earth does Boris manage to do it? Every time he has a problem, whether it be holidays, wallpaper, Tory donors or illegal Christmas parties, he manages to make the problem very considerably worse by prevaricating, blustering and, on occasions, telling downright lies. You would have thought that he would have learned by now that his approach doesn’t work. It is truly the way of the fool to keep trying the same thing and over again in the hope that the same failing approach might work next time.