Britain can’t cope with another year of Boris Johnson’s dithering leadership.

One thing’s for sure about 2020 — it wasn’t boring.

Right up to the finish line, the twin-headed demon of Covid and Brexit has kept us guessing.

Now, we’re in Tier 4 for who-knows-how-long, bringing the new calamity of EU ports shutting our exports before Christmas. And that’s before we fully Brexit.

Covid has accelerated so many trends in business, from the shift to shopping online to the rise in tech-led homeworking.

It has also speeded up the nation’s awareness of just how incompetent our Government is.

Time after time, Boris Johnson and his ministers have failed business and the public with their inability to plan ahead; their abject failure to take tough decisions early enough for people to prepare for the consequences.

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People running businesses can deal with change — it’s what they’re paid for. But they need time to do it. Saturday’s Christmas lockdown came days after the PM scorned Sir Keir Starmer for suggesting the same thing.

Having given less than two days’ notice of last week’s shutdowns, this time he gave just eight hours.

The chaos for shops, gyms, factories, traders, hauliers, supermarkets, and, yes, the Standard, is unforgiveable.

We can hope for one thing next year; that Covid’s effect of fast-forwarding global trends speeds the PM out of office.

For all today’s woes, many positives lie ahead: vaccines will bring a vigorous economic rebound. Our new-found love of technology will make it creative, productive and fun.

So, happy Christmas. Here’s to a 2021 that’s exciting for the right reasons.

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