It won’t exactly be a coronation – there is still the small matter of a vote by Conservative party members – but, in all likelihood, Boris Johnson will become Britain’s prime minister next month. The good news is that he would bring with him that most powerful of elixirs, optimism, and an energy that his party desperately wants to see. But his arrival in Downing Street would force him to confront his own multiple political personality disorder. The slick, disciplined Johnson of the leadership campaign – pounds shed, hair shorn, jokes used sparingly – professes to be more serious than the professional troublemaker he ... (full story)