Boris.

 It's a mark of his fame that just the name Boris, and we all know who we mean. No other British political figure has such name recognition, apart from Churchill, his political hero. So following his rise and ultimate fall - will have historians writing about him for years to come. It's no exaggeration to say it's positively Shakespearean in its calamity - the doyenne of the Conservatives to pariah. In only a matter of a few fateful years. This story is well observed in a 4 part programme on Channel 4 - The Rise and Fall of Boris Johnson. Life wasn't easy in the Johnson family with a serial adulterer father Stanley and mother, Charlotte who was emotionally unstable and admitted to the Maudsley Hospital for many months, when Boris was young. Nevertheless he went to Eton and then Oxford and became a member of the exclusive Bullingdom Club. Down from university he went into journalism, rising to become edition of the Spectator Magazine, the house paper of the Conservatives. I won't go into the - ins and outs of his political rise, but it was meteoric. Without him no Brexit - only he could get the ball across the line. But his character flaws would dog him - like a political leper. After becoming prime minister in July 2019 - it was very soon downhill thereafter. As Iago famously says in Othello 'reputation, reputation - I've lost my reputation'.

There was the general election in December 2019 and he managed to get an 80 seat majority. We had the exit from the EU at the end of January 2020. Boris was admitted to hospital with Covid and was in intensive care for a week. We then suffered the national catastrophie of Covid - that overtook the nation. We emerged in late autumn of 2021, but his mother had died in October. We had the fiasco of Partygate and his eventual nemesis and disgrace in only a matter of months. His personal story is tragic. He had so many talents, but they were wasted on him. We could have had a great prime minister - but we got a charlatan a narcissistic liar, an adulterer and the fall of someone - who threw his many talents away. Tragic indeed for him and his family and the nation. Someone said of him - "he was his fathers son" - say no more.