Who on earth could take a historian seriously who confidently predicted in 2020: “Like Churchill in 1942, Boris Johnson will prove the moaning minnies wrong” and, even at the bitter end, was still unctuously churning out pieces with headlines like “Boris’s career has ended on a glorious high” and “History WILL remember Johnson as a great leader”.
Boris Johnson, needless to say, reckons this historian – Andrew Roberts, whose father amassed millions running the Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise in the UK – should receive a peerage in his resignation dishonours list.
Roberts once made a speech at the expatriate South African Springbok Club, which flies the apartheid-era flag of South Africa and calls for “the re-establishment of civilised rule throughout the African continent”. Roberts said that he did not realise the Springbok Club was racist when he took on the speaking engagement.
