Boris bluster can't keep Brexit Britain's reality hidden

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Boris Johnson’s premiership epitomised a change in tone and apparent temperament for Britain. In the past five years, it went from respected former imperial power to unreliable protagonist with an outsize ego.

As head of government, Mr Johnson’s own words and deeds about government policies and prospects epitomised mendacity. Consider this:

His government has refused to tell the public the truth that you can’t cut taxes and spend handsomely on public services. The Office for Budget Responsibility, the British Treasury’s independent forecaster, recently said that public debt is too high and public finances are not being sufficiently replenished. Britain, it said, is on an “unsustainable” long-term path with a debt burden that could more than treble without further tax rises.

Mr Johnson falsely said, at the height of the fuel crisis in October, that British labour market problems was evidence of a shift to a “high-wage economy”.

His so-called Brexit opportu…