Loyal Tory MPs who’ve been sent out to talk up the PM and talk down his critics in the tearooms say the emphasis has been as much on tackling the Dorries problem as it has been on Johnson 🖊️ IsabelHardman
It was always going to end this way. That’s what Tory MPs thought this week when the Privileges Committee finally published its excoriating report into. It’s also what they thought when Johnson finally resigned in a blaze of fury last summer. But it’s never really the true “end” for the former prime minister, just a plot twist.
He has never really had many close friends in politics, and the wider party’s relationship with him was always transactional because MPs saw he could deliver them an election win, particularly against Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party. Some veteran Tory MPs still become a bit tearful when they recall the way Margaret Thatcher was thrown out of Downing Street: there is no such emotion for this ex-PM, even among his former backers.
I understand that the Prime Minister and those around him have ended up getting far more worked up by Nadine Dorries and her complaints that they blocked her from getting a peerage than they have even about Johnson himself.Loyal Tory MPs who’ve been sent out to talk up the PM and talk down his critics in the tearooms say the emphasis has been as much on tackling the Dorries problem as it has been on Johnson.
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