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HENRY DEEDES: Boris Johnson’s difficult coronavirus briefing NewsColony Whenever Boris Johnson has sticky news to deliver, he has what card sharps call a ‘tell’.  I’ve come to know it as his imaginary pen rummage routine. It begins with a dramatic double pat to the chest.  A quizzical look then creeps across his face, as though to say: ‘Where is the blighter, what have I done with it?’ Boris made no bones. It was also ‘perfectly obvious’ the global economy would suffer massive blow. The situation was going to be a challenges for ‘businesses big and small.’ Entrepreneurs watching at home may not have found these words altogether encouraging  The hunt then moves to the inside coat pockets. He reaches once, twice, three times. Without fail, the elusive writing instrument never materialises. So when the Prime Minister embarked on this peculiar fidget as he reached the Downing Street podium to update us on the ‘national fightback’ on the coronavirus late yesterda...