The Guardian view on Boris Johnson’s Brexit plans: all humbug | Editorial

The facts are only pertinent to Mr Johnson’s interest in getting away with what he says. It is a tragedy that he can get away with his fabrications and exaggerations whatever the cost to the countryBefore last Wednesday humbug had fallen out of favour from parliamentary usage. MPs used the word, on average, once every 127 days since 2010. But the term has been freely bandied about since last week, after Boris Johnson disreputably accused Paula Sheriff, a female Labour MP, of “humbug&