Boris must be regretting all his past comments

The higher up the political ladder you climb the more cautious you should be about commenting in public about other political leaders. This would usually be good common sense. But Boris Johnson has never adhered to that golden rule. Nor has Donald Trump. So the BBC Today programme very unkindly this morning reminded the US ambassador to London that Boris, when he was Mayor of London, said that Trump was unfit for office after the US president had said, somewhat wildly and inaccurately, that there were parts of London that were no-go zones where police were afraid for their lives. It was perhaps unsurprising that, shooting from the hip, Major Boris gave his reply as he did. But now he is prime minister, poor old Boris is getting his old comments thrown back at him. Woody Johnson (no relation), the US ambassador, played a blinder by dismissing such past insults and focusing on the future. He said the relationship between Trump and Boris would be sensational. I doubt Trump will hold the "unfit" comment against Boris. It's the sort of thing he has been saying about Boris's successor as mayor of London, Sadiq Khan. Woody Johnson is probably right, Boris and Trump will work very well together. From now on I expect Boris will be ultra careful about what he says about Trump. It will be tricky if Trump tweets insults about the UK for whatever reason. But my prediction is that Trump will tweet nothing but positives about Britain while Boris is in charge. But he may well continue with his insult campaign against Sadiq Khan. Boris won't mind that!