Boris Johnson is fighting against the dying of the light of his political career – he won’t win

The waters of indifference will close over the head of a temporary prime minister who served his purpose and was then discarded, writes John Rentoul

The former PM is due to give evidence to a Commons committee next week (PA Wire)

There is going to be quite a circus on 22 March. The committee of privileges has listed five hours of evidence from Boris Johnson, from 2pm to 7pm. At the same time, MPs in the Commons chamber will be debating Rishi Sunak’s Windsor deal that tries to clear up the mess that the former prime minister left behind in Northern Ireland.

It seems straightforward to predict what will happen in the parallel dramas, although anything involving the lord of chaos, as Dominic Cummings called him, requires us to expect the unexpected.

Even so, I will predict that Johnson will repeat what he said when the committee published the “principal issues to be raised with Mr Johnson” two weeks ago, namely that it is clear that “what I have been saying about this matter from the beginning has been vindicated”.