His mercurial shapeshifting comes under a little more scrutiny now he tops the polls, but not much. His will be the greatest party of “risk-takers”, plunging the country into crypto like Donald Trump. (Might he, too, launch his own token?) With undisguised glee he predicts an economic collapse in 2027, forcing an election to sweep him to power. He mentions “a self-induced act of financial stupidity”. At last! Among all his backflips and reversions, is this the confession we deserve from the man who instigated the great Brexit calamity? No, of course not. He is talking about the non-dom tax he would remove to lure back wealthy expats, including some of the quarter of a million Britons now in Dubai.