Boris Johnson: the entertainer who tried to defy political gravity

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

70% : It would be summed up by his later remark about companies' concerns over Brexit: "Fuck business."
58% : He lacked the trust of European allies, who blamed him for Brexit and remembered him having compared the EU to Nazism.
52% : The price was Northern Ireland -- whose trade with the rest of the UK would face customs checks after Brexit -- but Johnson astutely judged British voters would not mind.
45% : He had the chance to embody the "Global Britain" approach that he had claimed Brexit would foster, and invoked the memory of George Curzon, the Etonian viceroy of India.
44% : During the general election campaign that followed, Johnson pitched himself as the only person who could "get Brexit done", while investing in left-behind areas of England.
41% : He failed to influence crises in Yemen, Iran and Syria.
34% : An offhand remark about Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian woman detained by Tehran, was seized upon by the Iranian government to justify her further imprisonment.

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