BORIS JOHNSON WILL go down in history as a prime minister who played fast and loose with the rule of law.
That’s a much broader concept than merely committing a criminal offence — though Johnson acknowledged having done that, too, by accepting a fixed penalty notice in April for breach of his own government’s lockdown regulations.
In August 2019, weeks after he arrived in Downing Street, the prime minister advised the Queen to suspend parliament for an unprecedented five weeks. A month later, the Supreme Court
