Boris Johnson's leadership: the moral contagion can only be stopped with his resignation

By Stefan Stern, Visiting Professor of Management Practice, Bayes Business School, City, University of London

What is the difference between taking responsibility and bearing responsibility? The former is what the prime minister, Boris Johnson, keeps telling us he is doing. But the latter is what Sue Gray says senior figures at the heart of government should do.

“The senior leadership at the centre, both political and official, must bear responsibility for this culture,” wrote the civil servant in her…

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