Umair - you nailed Boris pretty well - vain, dishonest, charismatic, idiotic (your sense of the word), bully, slick, glib etc etc

But can you point to any leader who matches up to your picture of a good leader? I can't. Even Mahatma Ghandi was sexist and hated the Dalits. Winston Churchill, despite current Tory attempts to canonise him, was a pretty unpleasant character.

Yes, we need to reinvent leadership as well as everything else, but you will not get a saint like you describe who would be able to handle the politics of getting into a leadership position.

My dad used to say: "The trouble with democracy is that the characteristics that you need to get into a position of power are the opposite of the characteristics you need to rule well. Anyone who's power hungry enough to bid for power should be banned from politics."

Possibly the Buddha?