George Brandis, Australia’s former high commissioner to the United Kingdom, has called Boris Johnson the most consequential prime minister of the UK since Margaret Thatcher.
The former attorney-general’s comments come after Johnson announced he would be stepping down as prime minister following the resignation of 55 Conservative Party MPs from the ministry.
Brandis Q.C., now-professor of national security at the Australian National University, said Johnson was a “real fighter” who would have been keen to see out his tenure but in the end knew he was “entirely politically unviable.”
He said the lockdown party incident was “untidy” but it should not overshadow his achievements, saying the former British prime minister had defied expectations to win an electoral mandate to push through with Brexit….