OP-ED: The political cracks that we just can’t wallpaper over

The sheer scale and audacity of Boris Johnson’s chicanery makes one draw breath
This Thursday, millions of Britons will go to the polls in a series of local and mayoral elections up and down the country. There is also a parliamentary by-election in the normally safe Labour seat of Hartlepool in the North East of England. 

But this week the newspaper headlines have been dominated, not by the elections, but by allegations of corruption by the prime minister, Boris Johnson.