Consummate phrase maker, Lord Peter Hennessy sums it up: “The long experience of Brexit so coarsened our politics that we learned to shout at each other as the preferred mode of exchange. We used to be subtle, quite funny, self-ironic and forebearing to each other 1/
But now for so many people the first line is enraged and resentful…The tooth and claw battle we’re seeing right now is deeply unedifying and I sometimes wonder if we’ll recover from it. We need a viable centre right party as much as we need a viable centre left party” 2/
On Johnson: “For the first time in his life he should do the decent thing and show some restraint…it would be frightful if it does happen, if he does become Prime Minister again, 3/
“we’d have gone from being perhaps the most mature democracies in the world to being one of the most adolescent democracies in the world inside a week. It doesn’t bear thinking about” 5/
“It’s not just the markets that have a floating exchange rate, the kinds and gilts. Our influence in the world has a floating exchange rate, which is very low at the moment. It doesn’t mean it’s unrecoverable. It is. But I don’t think it will ever recover to where it was before”
“Boris Johnson has taken the politics of vaudeville to a new level in the past few days. He’s forming a tribute band to himself, coming back to our shores to tour the country with it. His help us one and all.” Lord Hennessy @BBCRadio4 #bbcbh
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