His time is finally up. The lies, the lawbreaking, and the arrogance have caught up with him. Praised by pundits for his “teflon-like” ability to dodge accountability, Boris Johnson’s luck has finally run out.

Except, of course, Johnson doesn’t possess some innate “teflon” quality, nor has he been blessed with particular luck (beyond being born to very wealthy parents).

So how did such a nasty, selfish liar get so far? It’s not as if his character was a secret. This is the man who mocked Muslim women wearing the niqab as “bank robbers” and “letterboxes” (sparking a 375 percent rise in Islamophobic incidents), who called gay men “tank-topped bum boys,” and black people “picaninnies” with “watermelon smiles.”