Johnson should have dealt with Carrie row - EXPRESS COMMENT

The problem is that high-profile politicians simply can't dodge questions like Boris did (Image: ANDY RAIN / EPA-EFE / REX)

And citing the need for more police – in stark contrast to the cuts imposed by his predecessors – and focusing on the “awesome foursome” of education, investment, infrastructure and technology, he proved he was a man with a plan for the future, rather than a Leaver clinging to the past.

But his failure to address the recent row with partner Carrie Symonds head-on helped justify those who warn that the only threat to Boris’s ascendancy to PM is the man himself.

Any criminal barrister will tell you that there are two ways to deal with a question: answer it completely or make no comment.

But it wasn’t the “no comment” that undermined Boris yesterday; it was not explaining the reasons behind his reticence.

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Had he smoothed things by suggesting that it would be unfair on his partner, or taken a leaf out of Rory Stewart’s book and offered a “mea culpa”, it might have all been forgotten about.

Instead, he squandered the

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