Voters Deserve PM's Undivided Attention On The Real Issues

High Priorities: Mr Johnson flies off to Ukraine yesterday

- Tim Newark

BORIS Johnson might be suffering “Partygate” woes at home, but in Ukraine yesterday he was viewed as its strongest ally in the West, having sent anti-tank weapons while the likes of Germany offered only helmets.

It underlines the fact that while the Prime Minister was right to say “sorry” in the Commons this week – and both he and his team should be handed hefty fines for breaking lockdown rules, as any of us would be – there are more urgent matters to attend to.

Rampant inflation, rocketing fuel bills and armies poised for war in Eastern Europe demand attention and action. Yet MPs are baying for blood over drinks parties and birthday cakes. It is all too clear what is happening.

An unholy alliance of disgruntled civil servants, Dominic Cummings, the Left-leaning media and Remainer politicians of all sides sense a weakness in the so-far untouchable Tory leader and want to hammer away at it until he caves in.

With Boris gone, Labour thinks it stands a much better chance of winning back lost working class seats and EU diehard fanatics fantasise about reversing Brexit.

WITHOUT doubt, the double-standards shown by Johnson and his implicated colleagues deserve condemnation.