The problem with Johnson? ‘You never know what can happen next’

Advisers worked to keep him on message all week, but Friday night underlined why he remains a ‘grade one liability’. It was the moment the “Back Boris” team had dreaded but half-expected – when months of careful campaign planning were thrown off course by revelations about their man’s private life. As votes were being counted on Thursday afternoon in the final ballot of MPs for the Tory party leadership, a member of Johnson’s inner circle was upbeat but