"BORIS JOHNSON'S FORMER EMPLOYER MAX HASTINGS ON HIS CHARACTER...
'Most politicians are ambitious and ruthless, but Boris is a gold medal egomaniac. I would not trust him with my wife nor - from painful experience - my wallet.'
'His chaotic public persona is not an act - he is, indeed, manically disorganised about everything except his own image management. He is also a far more ruthless, and frankly nastier, figure than the public appreciates.'
'[Johnson] would make a wretched prime minister. He is not a man to believe in, to trust or respect, save as a superlative exhibitionist. He is bereft of judgment, loyalty and discretion. Only in the star-crazed, frivolous Britain of the 21st century could such a man have risen so high, and he is utterly unfit to go higher still.'"