Muddled, half-arsed, this was up there with any of May’s more pointless statements

“Let’s stick together,” said Boris Johnson, oblivious to the irony of threatening to sling 20 MPs out of his own party for doing what he had repeatedly done only months before. As impromptu statements outside Downing Street go, this was right up there with any of the more pointless ones given by Theresa May.

A speech that was muddled and half-arsed, whose only obvious purpose was to put the blame for any imminent general election on everyone but himself. “Pifflepafflewifflewaffle,” the prime minister mumbled, sounding rattled and lacking his usual sense of entitlement as he struggled to make his voice heard above the protesters just down the road.