The Express has made the same mistake as you did, confusing governments with leaders.
Macron remains far less popular than Johnson.
It must be quite galling for you to see that the world regards the UK government and leader as failures. Very sad to see that a country that was once thought of as a leader on so many things sink so low. Does the rest of the world make a distinction between a government and the leader? Of course they don't. They judge the leader by the results of how a country deals with the crisis. Look at Trump and compare with Ardern. Look at Johnson and compare with Varadkar. Are you trying to prove that the disaster that has overtaken the UK is nothing to do with Johnson?
