Read: Boris Johnson and the optimism delusion His conversations with members of the public are peppered with “That’s amazing!” and “You’re joking!” and “Wonderful!” and “Fantastic, fantastic!” He is the first British leader I’ve seen who genuinely appears to be having a good time.
His mission, he says, is to restore Britain’s faith in itself, to battle the “effete and desiccated and hopeless” defeatism that defined the Britain of his childhood.
He believes that if you repeat that it is morning in Britain over and over again, the country will believe it, and then it will come to pass.