Not since Ed Miliband metaphorically knifed his brother David in the back, snatching the Labour leadership from his grasp, has there been such a public display of fraternal political disharmony. Though Jo Johnson was careful not to take too many potshots at Boris, his resignation last week as a minister and demand for a second EU referendum could scarcely have been a more powerful indictment of the former Foreign Secretaryâs reckless egotism or a clearer attempt to separate himself from his elder sibling. |