Boris Johnson and the Politics of Popularism

Popularism is a strain of politics that has a chilling histtory and is dangerous. Johnson introduced it with a very winning style and a likable style, if you like that kind of thing. But i don't think we should sort of look on admiringly at the introduction of that particular vein of populism into british life. What's happening in america now, i find deeply disturbing. It's going through a real period of agony as a direct result of the sort of popolism that i was trying to describe. And really, we've seen it in these last forty hours, in me, in one person, because i have the mandate of the people.