Courage at the top
There is one quality that politicians have to share, courage. Not just because of the threat of assassination or attack but just standing up and saying unpopular things is difficult to do, meeting strangers all the time without knowing their reaction takes a hard skin.
But some just don’t have it. Theresa May’s election campaign was a case in point, she hid from people and the press and it showed.
Boris Johnson seems to be going the same way, no one likes being booed but someone with real personality could take advantage of it, someone without an ego made of thin glass that is.
Mr Johnson loves being popular, he has spent his whole life playing to the stalls for a laugh and a vote. He had to his ego demands it, he must be liked. But now he is deeply unpopular and he hates it.
The PM is fragile and it shows. The public can sense these things.
He cannot hide forever, his aides cannot hand pick his audience for ever, he cannot dodge important meetings with pathetic excuses forever.
He has to expose himself to the public at some point and that means exposing himself to ridicule.
He will hate it and it will show.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.