But just like Gove, once the civil servants sit him down and soberly explain the consequences to him he will (I hope) change his mind.
Unlikely. During his spell at the Foreign Office he reportedly sat at his desk, inserted his fingers in his ears and hummed God Save the Queen each and every time a civil servant tried to explain to him the complexities of Brexit and the likely social and economic damage.
The only thing that Boris was on top of during his tenure at the FO was usually someone else’s wife.
I have acquaintances who worked at the FO who’ve their own Boris related anecdotes – he’s reckless, has no care for detail, lacks empathy and apparently is a singularly charmless individual once you get to know him. He needs close and careful management and has a Trumpian disdain for experts. It pains me to say this, but the party needs a Gove, not a Johnson if it is to avoid being subsumed into the Faragist carnival populist movement that will ultimately either lead us straight into authoritarianism or decades of social unrest.