Max Hastings(I)

Newspaper editor. Son of Macdonald Hastings. Grandson of Basil Macdonald Hastings.

Boris [Boris Johnson] is a gold medal egomaniac. I would not trust him with my wife nor - from painful experience - my wallet. His chaotic public persona is not an act - he is indeed manically disorganised about everything except his own image management. He is also a far more ruthless and frankly, nastier, figure than the public appreciates. I would not take Boris's word about whether it is Monday or Tuesday. He is not a man to believe in, to trust or respect, save as a superlative exhibitionist. He is bereft of judgement, loyalty or discretion. Only in the star-crazed, frivolous Britain of the 21st Century, could such a man have risen so high, and he is utterly unfit to go higher still.