Great political leaders are few and far between

Ever since Boris Johnson became prime minister in 2019 there has been much talk and many articles written about whether he will go down in history as a great leader or an average one or a failed one. If he were to succeed magnificently in getting us through the post-Brexit trauma into a non-EU nirvana and also saved the economy from the clutches of the pandemic, then I guess he has a fairly good chance of being hailed as a pretty good leader. But to be honest is it even fair to ask wheher he will ever be a great prime minister? There have been so few great prime ministers of any country. Winston Churchill was a great wartime prime minister because he never gave up and was ruthless against the Nazi threat. He made famous Henry V speeches in parliament, although his intonation was a bit odd. Instead of "We shall fight them on the beaches" with "the beaches" on a higher level and tone, he dropped his voice so that "the beaches" became sort of matter of fact rather than a splendid image. But no one can dispute that without Churchill we could have even lost the war. But who else has been "great"? Disraeli, Lloyd George, Margaret Thatcher? They all had their moments of greatness but no one really lines any of them up with Churchill. So what chance has Boris got of being a great prime minister? If he has a lot of luck and things go his way and he stays popular then he will be regarded as a good populist leader but never Churchillian great because, God forbid, he will not have to lead in time of war - I mean a war endangering this country. So let him get on with doing the best he can until he loses an election and someone else has a go. From what I can see so far there certainly aren't any "greats" waiting in the wings in the Labour party or any other party, nor any potentially great leaders in the Conservative party. Just to put this all into a global context, I doubt Joe Biden will go down in history as a great president - just a nice average one. The last great American president for all kinds of different reasons was Ronald Reagan. I think Boris will do all right but please stop trying to make out he could soon or one day be seen as a man of greatness, worthy of a statue in Parliament Square.