OPINION - Brexit is Boris Johnson’s magic wand, but we’re now in a totally different world

In politics, victories bring problems just as often as defeats. Boris Johnson’s main claim on the affection of his electorate is that he got Brexit done. His biggest weakness is that, having got Brexit done, he has lost the issue which gives him the most energy. At the Conservative party spring conference in Blackpool this weekend the Prime Minister sounded like a man out of ideas.