WHEN THE MOST recent Westminster general election took place on 12th December 2019, the coronavirus pandemic was already technically underway, even though hardly anyone in the UK or other western countries had the slightest inkling of the troubling early events unfolding in Wuhan, China. Unwittingly, then, the British people were going to the polling stations to directly choose the person who would lead them through the biggest international crisis since the Second World War. The general consensus now is that they could hardly have made a more catastrophic selection in the shape of Boris Johnson -a man so determined to surrender to the hidden enemy he was meant to be fighting in early 2020 that at one stage he apparently floated the idea of getting Chris Whitty to inject him with the virus live on TV to demonstrate how ‘safe’ it was. The One Show may have only very narrowly averted being remembered for the all-time lowest point in television history.