I suppose you could say that the world divides into two camps when it comes to Boris Johnson: those who think he is a bumbling, self - indulgent, unprincipled idiot incapable of doing a
serious political job - and those who think that beneath the disheveled
exterior lies a sharp, original and amusing mind, a ferocious capacity for hard
work, and an even more ferocious ambition to get to the top of the greasy pole.