Britain deserves better than an Old Etonian Donald Trump | Simon Jenkins

His illness aside, Boris Johnson’s leadership style has served the country badly during its worst crisis in decades

Britain’s prime minister is looking ever more like an Old Etonian Donald Trump. A premiership that began with sacked ministers, party purges and vacuous slogans has continued in the same vein. Revelations in the Sunday Times of No 10 during Johnson’s illness are alarming. With a prime minister locked in his bedroom, his absentee aide Dominic Cummings manoeuvred the ousting of the he...