Since the start of Russia's war against Ukraine, the British prime minister had grown in statesmanlike stature.
He supported the unified Western stance on the Russian attack, and his government also imposed sanctions on Russian oligarchs who had previously been at least close to his party.
Rhetorically, he almost never went overboard.
It almost seems as if he finds this impression of himself unbearable.
How else should one understand his remarks at a conference of his Conservative Party, when he compared the Ukrainians' struggle for freedom against the Russian invaders with that of the British during the Brexit dispute?
The open-ended scale of embarrassment
In terms of content, there is no need to comment further on the nonsense expressed in this remark.
But what does such a statement say about the character of the man who, after all, governs a medium-sized nuclear power?
Actually, one would think that Boris Johnson could hardly surprise anymore.
But unfortunately you have to realize that he keeps setting new records on the embarrassment scale, which is open-ended.
Above all, this time he cannot shift the blame to subordinates, as he had tried to do in the affair about parties during the corona pandemic.
The question remains how much longer Britain will be able to afford such a head of government.