By Patrick Marmion for the Daily Mail
Published: 01:08 BST, 15 May 2019 | Updated: 01:09 BST, 15 May 2019
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The Last Temptation of Boris Johnson
Park Theatre, Finsbury Park, London
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Boris Johnson. Saint or sinner? Brilliant political strategist or village idiot? National saviour or botched haircut on legs?
Whatever you make of Bojo, there are those of us who can’t help enjoying the spectacle he makes of himself. I suspect Jonathan Maitland is one.
His new comedy about the twice mayor of London, former foreign secretary and would-be PM features an endlessly watchable performance from Will Barton as the mop-top Machiavellian schemer.
Will Barton plays a very watchable mop-top Machiavellian schemer Boris Johnson in Jonathan Maitland's new play
Barton delights as Johnson: he has absolutely nailed the rolled shoulders, shifty eyes and fingers tucked, cowboy style, into the belt below his bulging middle. But there are delicious spoofs throughout
It kicks off at the infamous Islington dinner party of 2016, the night Boris decided to throw his weight behind Brexit. Michael Gove is there; so too is the owner of the London
