U.K. Update, Postscript

It is being reported Boris Johnson, former foreign secretary and Theresa May's rival for leadership of the Conservative Party in the U.K. about whom we wrote yesterday, has left his wife of 25 years. The political implications of this are unclear.

According to the Daily Mail, Johnson has an absolutely Kennedyesque reputation for womanizing. So does Donald Trump, with whom he has often been compared. Here's an interesting political insight which I share without endorsing the efficacy thereof:

Their split was announced as it was claimed the Brexit cheerleader is poised to make a bid to replace Theresa May as PM with sources calling it a 'damage limitation exercise' rather than a 'stitch up'.

One Tory MP claimed today the news was all a case of 'shovelling the s*** out of the way for the leadership bid'.

The couple's joint announcement of the split was entirely civilized, correct and lawyerly. Political impact in the current era of serial monogamy may be minimal.