John Ivison: The leaders of the free world were gathered around a conference table in the Bavarian Alps when one of them decided to make a horse’s ass of himself.
No prizes for guessing it was Boris Johnson who mused whether the G7 leaders should take their clothes off. “We’re all here to show we’re tougher than (Vladimir) Putin,” he told the assembled media.
This is the British prime minister’s modus vivendi. Like a child, he always tries to amuse his audience. His only redeeming feature is that he can be entertaining. “My chances of being prime minister are about as great as the chance of finding Elvis on Mars or my being reincarnated as an olive,” he once said, famously.
But Justin Trudeau is not funny, as his closest advisers have told him time and again.
Instead, Trudeau volunteered that the august gathering should “get the bare-chested horseback riding display going,” mocking Putin’s fondness for shirtless pictures.
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