It is not as if the British nation or, for that matter, any even half-awake observer around the world does not know what they are getting with Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
No other British politician has had so many biographies written about him even before he won his first elected office as an unsuccessful mayor of London, 2008-2016.
Never one to hold back choice quotes, Johnson once even declared: "My chances of being prime minister are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive."