Boris is Trump

So, yesterday, in a planned event, Johnson was asked seven times about what happened at his girlfriend's flat on Thursday. Each time he dodged the question. And Conservative members who attended booed the newspaper reporter for asking the question.

Let us not forget, this was in relation to a possible domestic abuse charge.

Today, the press are reporting it two ways: The Express demanding to know why Boris won't say what happened, whilst the Torygraph says the people who reported the event were "left-wing", and the Express called them "remain voting" and the Mail called them "anti-Brexit neighbours".

Yesterday, a columnist spent the day on Twitter trying to rephrase the question on whether the neighbours had broken the law in recording and reporting the row. The once paper of record trying to spin such a story to damage the source rather than actually question what happened.

These are strange times, and getting stranger.

If newspapers can overlook such a potential transgression in order to protect his political campaign, and the possible welfare of his girlfriend is sacrificed, then what? We end up with a monster as PM? A monster that can be blackmailed, his character should be under extra scrutiny by the press and media as to whether his is suitable to lead the country through these very choppy Brexit waters.