Expect that most of what we will be reading during Boris Johnson’s term as Prime Minister will be made up of sphincter tightening and pearl clutching. Those of us who voted for Donald Trump will recognize the pattern. Example one, from Business Insider:

‘Cabinet from hell’: Boris Johnson hires ministers who backed hanging, called feminists ‘obnoxious bigots,’ and opposed same-sex marriage

Johnson, who became prime minister on Wednesday, conducted the most brutal cabinet purge in modern UK political history, as ministers who backed his rival Jeremy Hunt were thrown out of Cabinet.

He shocked Westminster by bringing in Dominic Cummings, the controversial campaign director who ran the Vote Leave campaign, while dominating his top team with prominent Brexit campaigners.

Pledging to deliver Britain’s exit from the European Union by October 31, with “no ifs or buts,” Johnson fired 17 Cabinet ministers and gave many top jobs to members of Parliament who had been involved in the Vote Leave team, handing Michael Gove the job of no-deal preparations as chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.

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The Scottish National Party said Johnson’s new government was “shaping up to be the worst since Thatcher” and was “packed full of extreme Brexiteers and rabid right-wingers who want to drag us back to a bygone era.”

“This is a Tory Cabinet from hell, which Donald Trump or Nigel Farage would be proud of — with members that want to scrap the Barnett formula, privatize the NHS, roll back workers’ rights, undo the welfare state, cut taxes for the rich, and even bring back the death penalty,” SNP MP Pete Wishart said.

The chairman of the opposition Labour Party, Ian Lavery, described Johnson’s top team as “a cabinet of hardline conservatives who will only represent the privileged few.”