I think there’s a slight broader move away from neoliberalism internationally. Covid, Brexit and climate change have accelerated that – governments are having to do more again and the myth that private is always best has been dispelled for generations that have previously not known any different. In this country May was already along the path to more intervention, certainly than the neo-lib peak of the Osborne years. Personally I favour that.
But to me the really sinister thing about Johnson (and again begun by May) is the shift to social conservatism. The fear, culture wars, stirring division and authoritarianism. It’s like a playbook from the Norsefire party or something (GB News/Talk Radio is just a parody of Lewis Prothero).
I disliked Cameron/Osborne for their neoliberalism, but I fear Johnson for his fascism.