Perfect timing for Boris's wedding

There is a timing for everything in politics. Boris's "surprise" earlier-than-expected wedding to Carrie Symonds at Westminster Cathedral on Saturday was perfectly timed as the row raged over the prime minister's handling or mishandling of the fight against coronavirus, thanks to his former ally Dominic Cummings. Wedding bells always help to focus the mind of voters elsewhere. I'm not saying that the date of the wedding was brought forward by a year just to shut Cummings up. But only a few days ago it was being put about that Boris and Carrie would marry in the summer of 2022. At the time I thought it was a bit strange. Why on earth wait for another year. Get on wth it Boris I thought. But now we know, it was all a clever plot to make the wedding on Saturday a total surprise and bring smiles to a population fed up to the molars with lockdown and quarantine and masks and social distancing. So, congratulations Boris and Carrie, now official First Lady as opposed to First Fiancee. I wish them well. And if it helps us all forget Dominic Cummings then we will all be better off for it. Despite the Indian variant and the very very very bad decision not to stop all flights from India immediately that variant had been declared, let us hope that the promised return to normality can go ahead as planned on June 21.