Cuddly, friendly Boris is back with his bad gags and instant soundbites | John Crace

Having secured his job by promising to kick up rough if he were moved, the foreign secretary starts new year in relaxed moodAs the Four Pot Plants continued to wait anxiously by the phone to see if they were going to be offered a ministerial job in the reshuffle, Boris Johnson got ready for his first departmental questions of the new year. Having already established the previous day that whoever else may be in charge of the government it isn’t the prime minister, the foreign secretary was