Operation “Save Big Dog”: Boris Johnson’s counterattack

L’image makes the rounds of the media: Boris Johnson in colored shorts, beanie on his head, jogs before dawn, holding his dog on a leash. Five days have passed since his last public appearance last Wednesday, when the Prime Minister apologized to parliamentarians and the nation for taking part in a “bring your own booze party” (“Bring your own bottle party”) in Downing Street in May 2020 while the country was in lockdown. The image conveyed in the press on Tuesday is that of a man who stands up to repeated scandals. A member of his family having tested positive for Covid, he canceled all his trips to isolate himself without being forced to do so. A useful pretext for a man whose political survival is increasingly a matter of “m…