TOM EATON | Boris’s pants are on fire. Cyril could do worse than take a leaf out his playbook

Every so often a certain sort of South African insists that we should take our lead from the Old Country, Mother Blighty, and do things the pukka British way down here.

It’s a hangover 200 years in the making, a relic of empire beloved by those who don’t yet understand that the Great Britain of their nostalgic fantasies has shrivelled into self-parody. Brits who voted “leave” were promised Spitfires barrel-rolling over the White Cliffs of Dover. Instead they got lickspittles hovering over the White Oaf of Downing Street...A subscription gives you full digital access to all Sunday Times content.

He must have gone to the same training school as the ANC...

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