Ecuador’s election wasn’t free — and its people will pay the price under President Noboa

WHEN you come under pressure in politics there are essentially two ways out of the crisis. You abandon what you were doing and go over to your critics, or you tough it out and stick to your beliefs.
To no-one’s great surprise Boris Johnson has chosen the coward’s way out and adopted the main agenda of Tory critics on his right. As scientists have warned, this risks a resurgence of the number of omicron cases in this country. This is while new deaths are still on the rise.
Many great crimes have been committed in high office. But this is an extraordinary case of a Prime Minister who is willing to let people die in even greater numbers simply to save his own skin. Greater self-love has no man than to lay down the lives of others to save himself.



