BORIS JOHNSON WAS ONE OF THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL PRIME MINISTERS in British history, as well as one of the most remarkable. Loved by a slew of conservative-minded voters, including a huge cohort who had never voted Conservative before, Johnson assembled a coalition of support across the country unseen this side of the Second World War.
But beyond the admirers and the give-him-a-chancers there is a long list of people who hate him wholly and entirely and with an unremitting enmity. They are not to be found exclusively, nor even largely, amongst the ranks of the Left, for their animus is not triggered by traditional tribal difference. But who they are we will come to later. For the