Ed Miliband never convinced the public to move on. Can Boris Johnson?

Voters struggle to move on when a leader’s character is in question, argues Kate Devlin

Boris Johnson is still licking his wounds after narrowly avoiding being ousted from Downing Street by his own MPs.

He can at least take some comfort from the fact that the comparisons between his own turmoil and the difficulties suffered by Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May, who were both eventually hounded from office by the Tory party, are often wide of the mark.

Unfortunately for the prime minister, there remains one political comparison he will not be pleased about: that with Ed Miliband.