One thing is certain about the Tory leadership contest. The victor will look an awful lot older in a year’s time.
Observe poor Boris and his hooded eyes. In his three years in No 10, he has aged ten. This is in large measure because of the problems that have beset him – COVID, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Partygate, to name a few. It is also because of the unremitting pressure of the modern media.
There was a time when, however burdensome the
