Why can't the Conservatives give Johnson the boot? Simple - because they're utterly spineless.

I was reading a piece in the New Statesman the other day about Boris and Carrie Johnson's trip to Chequers last weekend.

The article discussed how the family Johnson “brooded” at the Buckinghamshire countryside retreat with a sense of “confusion” over how the rules may not have applied to them. 

According to the account, it was apparently perplexing to th…