Regular readers of my column will understand why I shed no tears over the end of Boris Johnson's political career.

His Friday night announcement that he was resigning as MP for Uxbridge immediately - and his intemperate strop of a letter that accompanied it - showed clearly why he has no place in the political world.

Because in the manner of his resignation from the House of Commons he showed quite clearly he is not a rational, considered adult. He is an immature narcissist who has emotionally never left the junior Common Room at Eton College.

The fact is he lied, and lied, and lied again about the Downing Street parties - and has never once been prepared to take responsibility for them. 

As Peter Aldous said at the weekend, if he had fessed up at the start and admitted he had done wrong, this would probably all have gone away.

He didn't. He continued to deny any culpability and continues to try to blame everyone else for all the problems he faces. He lacks the maturity to take responsibility for his actions.

And the party issue wasn't the start of his problems - his general demeanour during the pandemic prompted me to say two years ago that he wasn't fit to be Prime Minister.

He's not fit to be an MP either - and now he isn't and won't be ever again.

Don't believe these hints and winks from him and his more deluded acolytes that he might make a comeback. He's finished!

The Conservative Party will never put someone who is doing so much to undermine its own leadership on a shortlist of Parliamentary candidates ever again.

They were worried that their members could have voted for him when he toyed with the idea of standing for the leadership again last October - but I always thought that was a story he put about simply to create havoc in the party rather than as a serious bid.

Because the vast majority of the public have seen through him.

They know Boris Johnson isn't interested in the good of the country or even the Conservative Party.

They've realised that Boris Johnson only cares about the best interests of Boris Johnson.

Of course there remains a diminishing minority of poeple in this country - and on the Conservative benches of the House of Commons - who continue to have faith in Mr Johnson.

I believe those that remain true to him are delusional - and that they will eventually come to see through him as most have already.

One of the most repeated fallacies I've heard quoted is that "Boris Johnson won the 2019 election for the Tories."

I can't speak about the motivation of everyone who voted Conservative in 2019, but from what I saw in Ipswich this is completely wrong.

It WAS a party leader that swung the election to the Tories that year - but it wasn't Mr Johnson!

When I was collecting data for our election survey that year many people told me they were voting Conservative because they were scared stiff of Jeremy Corbyn.

Only one or two told me they were voting Tory because of Mr Johnson!

And I strongly suspect that many of those who liked Mr Johnson in 2019 have changed their opinion of him as the lies and bad behaviour surrounding him have been exposed.

I don't think we've heard the last of Mr Johnson - his desire to be in the public eye and to make his views heard will ensure that there's always someone prepared to listen to him.

But I'm sure that will be through newspaper columns and television chat shows and not through any elected office.

The vast majority of people in this country now know exactly what kind of person Mr Johnson is and would never vote for him again.