Mr Johnson has consistently refused to rule out a comeback, no doubt flattered by a Sky News-YouGov Tory leadership poll which suggested nearly half of Conservative Party members want him back.
When asked"What if Boris Johnson was actually on the ballot paper?" he won by a landslide. Some 46% said they would vote for him - almost double the 24% for Liz Truss and 23% for Rishi Sunak.There was also a"Bring Back Boris" petition, organised by Tory donor Lord Cruddas, demanding a rule change so the outgoing PM could join Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak on the leadership ballot paper.
And what about money? It has been claimed that Mr Johnson hopes to make as much as £10m in his first year out of Downing Street. Then there's newspaper columns - he did, after all, call The Daily Telegraph his"real boss", according to Dominic Cummings - and signing up with a speakers' bureau for £250,000 a speech.
As he demonstrated with his 2018 onslaught on Theresa May, he enjoys a status with party activists of somewhere between a god and a rock star. His reception from those adoring activists would overshadow and humiliate his successor.
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