Shamelessness: it’s the Conservatives’ superpower | Richard Godwin

It allows Boris Johnson to lie and be found out, again and again. And it’s what makes a leadership contest thinkableI once knew a kid who had set his heart on a career in journalism. He didn’t have much of an in with the London media, so he decided to go the old-fashioned route: an entry-level reporting job on a local paper in a small market town. Not much pay. Bullying editors. Lots of stories about bins. But a job, nonetheless – at least until a solitary member of the public