Johnson has trousered £1M in just over 6 weeks but the taxpayer gets the £220,000+? bill for his legal fees. Because that’s the ‘established precedent’. It’s also the ‘established precedent’ that ministers be sacked for serious breaches of the ministerial code. But they routinely ignore that one.

That aside though, in a country where so many cannot afford legal representation and legal aid has been cut to the bone, to have taxpayers forking out for Johnson’s legal fees, is beyond sickening.