'The longer I spend away from Westminster, the stronger my belief that you should only get involved if you really think you can be useful,' says Johnson For Boris Johnson’s allies, there is an alternative history of the past two-and-a-half years of British politics in which he is not toppled from power in July 2022. In this parallel reality, Johnson puts forward a less market-troubling, but still pro-growth Budget in the autumn of that year and, crucially, successfully defends his Conservative majority in a 2024 election. Whether this counterfactual timeline would have actually turned out this way, no one will...