If Boris Johnson knows no shame, how can we embarrass him into action?

Theresa May and her government were bothered that the people didn’t like them. With the current incumbent in No 10, I’m not sure that’s true anymore

“You know, they realise that people don’t like them. It bothers them.” So said a lobbyist in the field of disability to me of Theresa May’s government.

Of course, that didn’t mean that May’s administration was ever going to be willing to grub up the really nasty weeds that were throttling Britain’s disabled people – the “personal independence payments” or ESA assessments carried out by private companies that have sown misery, for example. But it was a government that could be poked. It could be embarrassed into thinking about these issues – sometimes even moving its position on them in the process.

With Boris Johnson in No 10, I’m not sure that’s true anymore.