The end of the getaway

I'm going to tell you a secret.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
06 June 2022 Monday 19:53
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The end of the getaway

I'm going to tell you a secret. Despite the importance of the digital edition for all of us who do La Vanguardia every day, the paper cover continues to have a special magic. It is probably due to the fact that throughout the day we successively change the news that occupy our front page on the web, unlike the one on paper, which is unique and remains in the newspaper archives for posterity. Not in vain we collect 141 years of covers.

Therefore, the selection of the main photo on the first page deserves special attention. Every day a team led by photographer Pedro Madueño is in charge of searching for the best images that stand out for their journalistic relevance and, in some cases, also for their eccentricity. These last ones end up occupying the space of page two, just below this article if you are reading me in the paper edition. Well, where I wanted to get: almost every day we have a photo of Boris Johnson clowning around. Yes, literally. This is not a contempt for the prime minister. It is that Johnson always has time to go somewhere to dress up as anything, take his dog for a walk with an outfit unbecoming of a prime minister or make any face at the photographer.

Rafael Ramos's brilliant chronicles from London have allowed us to better understand the complex idiosyncrasies of the conservative leader and his strange behavior that, however, allowed him to easily win the December 2019 elections. Last January we wrote in this section that Johnson had exhausted and to his credit by being exposed to Downing Street parties during the pandemic, but with the invasion of Ukraine and his ability to navigate so many problems, the prime minister had managed to stave off his downfall. Now, his own Tory comrades have said enough and presented a motion of censure yesterday. We must applaud the British political system because in Spain it would be difficult to see the PP promoting such a motion against Mariano Rajoy, or the PSOE against Pedro Sánchez. Johnson momentarily saved his head yesterday, but it will be difficult for him to continue governing as if nothing had happened. We are at the end of his escape.