Last weekend, Rishi Sunak failed to wear a seatbelt in the back seat of a moving vehicle, an offense that carries a $125 fine. In doing so, he became the second sitting British prime minister to be punished by the police for breaking the law. Had this happened to anyone else at any other time, the fine may have caused something of a scandal. Lucky for Sunak, though, it was completely overshadowed by the exploits of his predecessor but one. That’s right—Boris Johnson might be out of office, but he’s still making an almighty hash of things.
Johnson, at this point less a man and more a whirling pinwheel of ethical unsoundness, is once again in hot water. Last week, The Times of London revealed that Johnson had received a personal loan worth more than $1 million from Canadian businessman Sam Blyth in 2020. But what is turning heads is the fact that the man who facilitated the introduction between Johnson and Blyth was Richard Sharp, a Tory donor who was then under consideration for the government-appointed role of BBC chairman—which he was awarded shortly after the loan went through.
