QAnon paranoids, far-right fanatics, and neo-Nazis couldn’t have broken into Congress without some enablers in high places. Capitol police’s capitulation to the protestors — many them off-duty officers and military personnel — clearly demands further investigation. And none of this would have happened without Donald Trump, his media outriders and lawyers egging on conspiracy theorists and falsely presenting far-right groupuscules as the authentic voice of the “white working class.”

But the blame extends much wider on the Right than the outgoing president, or even the likes of Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley. For evidence we need only look at the other conservatives who embraced Trump. British prime minister Boris Johnson, who saw the administration as an ally in reaching a post-Brexit trade deal, has long coddled Trump, and even after last summer’s Black Lives Matter protests praised him for “making America great again” and doing “fantastic stuff.” Only since Joe Biden’s win has he been forced to abandon such outright sycophancy.

Johnson’s foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, was especially slow to abandon Trump — refusing to comment on Trump’s failure to accept the election result or whether “all votes should be counted.” On Wednesday he appeared unwilling to blame Trump for the scenes at the Capitol. Raab could, however, hardly be suspected of shyness in commenting on elections in the Americas — he has strongly backed Venezuela’s coup leader Juan Guaidó, and condemned Jeremy Corbyn for recognizing Evo Morales’s victory in the 2019 Bolivian election, as he instead echoed baseless “vote fraud” claims.