If you love a good soap opera, complete with all the twists and turns, politics is usually fairly decent viewing.

British politics at present, however, is more reserved for those who can’t help but stare at a road accident as they drive past.

In the wake of Brexit the wheels have really come off, and nowhere is that more apparent than in the race to become the next British prime minister.

Yesterday saw Boris Johnson, Donald Trump’s hair protege, rule himself out of the running, a decision that sent shock waves reverberating around the world.

That was before everyone caught wind of why, with this below from the Daily Beast:

[he] was forced to pull out of the race when his own campaign manager betrayed him in spectacular fashion.

Johnson is widely thought to have campaigned for Britain to leave the European Union in last week’s referendum as part of a cunning plot to seize the leadership of the Conservative Party from his old school friend David Cameron…

At times of great crisis, true leaders step forward. Johnson hesitated, then prevaricated, and then angered his Conservative colleagues with a mealy mouthed newspaper column that appeared to show he was wavering about fully pulling Britain out of the European Union.

Michael Gove [human toad, pictured below], who ran the Leave campaign with Johnson, was always more of a true believer. In a statement that shocked Westminster on Thursday, he announced he would quit his role as Johnson’s campaign manager and put himself forward for the party leadership.

“I have come, reluctantly, to the conclusion that Boris cannot provide the leadership or build the team for the task ahead,” Gove said.

Within minutes of the statement, members of Parliament who had pledged their support to Johnson were abandoning him in favor of Gove. Alex Salmond, Scotland’s former first minister, described Gove on Thursday as “Lord Macbeth.”