Winners and losers from Boris resignation

The biggest loser from the last week of crazy politics in Westminster is obviously Boris. He is out, finshed, kaputski. He can't even have his planned, postponed party bash to celebrate his wedding at Chequers, the official prime minister's country residence. All Boris can now do is sit around in Number 10 until his replacement is selected, and hold cabinet meetings that will hold no meaning. But there are other losers from the madness: Simon Case, the cabinet secretary, failed to restrain Boris and his wildness and never stepped in when he should have done to stop partying during the pandemic lockdown periods; the whole of 10 Downing Street for failing to govern properly; every minister in the cabinet who put their job and ambitions before their duty to the country, except when it suited them - ie when they resigned to push Boris out and attempt to grab the premiership for themselves- and the reputation of the United Kingdom which has been seriously battered around the world. None of the candidates coming forward to replace Boris inspire any confidence that they will be capable of righting all the wrongs or give reassurance to the nation that they will be the standard bearer of moral, honest and fair government. Sir Keir Starmer, the Labour opposition leader, should have been one of the winners of this political farce but he failed, too. On the day when he confronted Boris at Question Time in the House of Commons he could have used his moment to make an inspirational speech about the country needing integrity. But all he did was insult Boris and his cabinet with stupid phrases he or his speech writer thought would make good headlines. Pathetic! The only real winner was Lord Simon McDonald, former head of the Diplomatic Service and the Foreign Office who dared to speak out, or tweet out, to say Boris had not been telling the truth when he claimed he didn't know Chris Pincher, deputy chief whip responsible for discipline among Tory MPs, who had been accused of sexual misconduct with men in a Conservative private members' club. It was the Pincher affair which led to Boris's downfall. But it was the tweet from the former top diplomat which engineered that fall from grace.