What a picture – Boris Johnson and the Sun’s editor, running out of power | Jonathan Jones

The strength is almost visibly seeping from the foreign secretary and Tony Gallagher in this photograph, as their mandate turns to dust

Why are they running and where are they going? Like naked mole rats scurrying endlessly in a plastic burrow, foreign secretary Boris Johnson and the Sun editor Tony Gallagher are photographed together. They’re seemingly in the belief that the Conservative party and its media allies have a destination, somewhere to get to, something urgent to do – other than wait for the tide of history to engulf them.

Gallagher seems more aware of the futility of it all than Johnson, who keeps going like a puffed-up hamster. That’s right, keep turning the wheel, there’s a treat in store. Gallagher meanwhile appears not just breathless but depressed. He looks tired, tired of it all – not just the jogging but the lies, the distortions, the greasy pole. Perhaps this picture reveals Johnson’s latest move in a campaign to undermine Theresa May – is the Sun about to publish his latest manifesto for a pure clean Brexit? If so, the tabloid editor seems less than inspired by the machiavellian game.

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