In phone calls with friends and allies from his days on the mayoral campaign trail in London and during the Brexit referendum, Boris Johnson has said that he does not see this as the end of a political career 🖊️ annemcelvoy via ipaperviews
, did not manage the extraordinary feat of being ousted by his own party after winning a whopping 80-seat majority; and – following the row over “Partygate” rule-breaking – being slammed in a parliamentary report for misleading both the Commons and the committee itself.
This logic has another Churchillian echo – self-pity. But it is also an unmistakeable sign that Johnson, faced with the wishful thinking of colleagues and civilians who deem this a shabby end to a controversial leadership, doesn’t believe this to be the final chapter of the book. He has also hinted that he intends to campaign in the next election for political Brexiteer friends in the “Red Wall” – probably including, and North-East seats that fell to the Conservatives in 2019, many for the first time. Johnson’s reputation is far from as rosy as it was there (I speak as a daughter of North West Durham, the heart of the Tory northern landslide, where a local political observer puts it laconically: “The Red Wall the Tories demolished is more than half rebuilt by now.
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