Anyone who accepts a peerage via Boris Johnson in the coming months is spectacularly guilty of not reading the room (assuming Sunak and the Lords actually proceed with them now).

Who could be proud of such an "achievement”?

Also, I don’t get it: what does anyone standing up for, or defending, Johnson at this point think they stand to gain? He’s toxic, a spent force in politics. They should be distancing themselves, not repping for him on BBC News