I find that incredibly difficult to understand given his history of actions and racist/sexist/homophobic statements, none of which he's apologized for.
I can see why he is perceived as "woke" regardless of past statements for which there's been no apology. A metropolitan, urban Tory who's more than happy to overlook the fact that your Filipina housekeeper doesn't have a work visa, and your youngest is going through a "Grecian" phase having gone up to Cambridge. All that matters to Johnson is...Johnson. You can do and say whatever you like as long as you're not impinging on his interests.
When I stated that "Lord" Frost was a deranged imbecile whose competence is in inverse proportion to his own self-perception, I wasn't really getting into a comparison with the rest of a corrupt, unhinged, venal cabinet.
I agree that the next leader very likely to be a hardliner given that today's
Daily Mail has a full page of self-aggrandising lies from Farage, stating that he has been approached by a few "wealthy investors" to make a return to frontline politics, with a specific remit to tackle the so-called "problem" of illegal migrants in the Channel head on. Whilst it's par for the course from the grifting spiv whose massive EU pension must be too little for his expensive tastes, it will further spook the loon mainstream in the Tory party.
It's a far right source so I am not linking, if you want to be thoroughly depressed by the comments find it for yourselves.
On Johnson, I think we will have a new PM within six months. He's finished.