Boris digs himself deeper as his usual tricks fall flat | John Crace

The foreign secretary had no hard facts to back up his Brexit vision, just a few lame tropesIt was the pathos rather than the hypocrisy that really struck home. The entertainer who used to sell out the O2 and now can’t even buy a gig as a warm-up act in front of a captive afternoon audience of retirement home residents. Boris Johnson tried all his familiar tricks. He smirked. He trotted out some bad gags. He spoke a bit of Latin. He went off on predictable riffs.All things that had worked