Boris posing beside Trump betrays his utter irrelevance

I can't remember who said it, but now that we have more living former prime ministers than ever before, the phrase “There’s nothing so ‘ex’ as an ex-prime minister” keeps coming to mind.

- SEAN O'GRADY

Count ’em: Major, Blair, Brown, Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak. It’s going to make their turn at Remembrance Sunday a bit overcrowded. Still, they have their roles to play, their wisdom to dispense and their memoirs to sell. Some, it is fair to say, are more publicity-conscious than others.

For example, Liz Truss, now an ex-MP, posing outside the Republican National Committee Convention for no good reason. Plus, in a kind of Tory PM “bogof” offer to their American soulmates, Boris Johnson, if you can remember him.

There’s a highly embarrassing, even humiliating picture of him addressing a meeting sponsored by the American Vapor Technology Association, a trade body, with an audience of about two dozen people. It’s only a couple of years since he spoke at the UN General Assembly about the transcendent threat to humanity of climate change (and, making sure he got the attention he thinks he deserves, adding a little Kermit the Frog joke).