After more than three years as prime minister, Mr Johnson heads for the backbenches, where he is expected to be defiant, stir up trouble and plot a Trump-style comeback.
Although he vowed in his farewell speech outside a packed Downing Street on Tuesday morning to “get behind Liz Truss every step of the way” and hinted that a comeback is not on the cards, nothing is for certain.
Top Tories, close allies and even an ex-girlfriend are all agreed that his resentment towards his assassins - as he sees them - means he will bide his time until he is ready to strike back.
And as he heads for the backbenches, the former prime minister is walking into an almighty row already, as the old wounds that led to his downfall are reopened.
The inquiry by the Commons privileges committee into claims he lied to MPs over partygate and about groping allegations against former deputy chief whip Chris Pincher could lead to him being suspended or even being kicked out of the Commons.
Perhaps BJ will form a “gang” of identically-dressed MPs to swagger around Westminster:
Johnson’s resignation speech had several confusing metaphors - is he just resigning as Party Leader or as an MP too?
When Cincinnatus returns to his plough (splashing down invisibly in some remote and obscure corner of the Pacific en route!) will he be resigning as an MP before retiring to obscurity?
Or will he keep collecting his MP Salary while he skives off for a while, relaxing “down on the farm” with his plough, while he finishes his memoirs and Cincinnatus awaits the moment of his return in a blaze of glory?
The historian Mary Beard points out that Cincinnatus’s cause was against the common citizens, known as the plebeians. He was in fact an “enemy of the people”.
Boris won’t be making any return, I would put money on it . He is a narcissist and likes the sound of his own voice and will be making loads of money speaking and writing newspaper columns.
Now he has mucked up the country risking the Tories not getting elected at the next election he wouldn’t want the supporting role of opposition leader.
