Whenever Johnson has a problem, he calls Zelenskiy – and the bill is rapidly mounting | Simon Jenkins

Each domestic disaster is followed by a call pledging more aid to Kyiv – it’s the most expensive therapy session in history

What do you do when in deep trouble? Boris Johnson is having his fill of it, but does he consult his chief whip, his political aides, his secretaries or his wife? Intriguingly he turns to someone in even deeper trouble that himself, the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

Last Wednesday the prime minister suffered the humiliating departure of his so-called “ethics” advis...