Tories looking to rebuild the Tory party should reject the Boris myth
‘Was it worth it?’, Nadine Dorries asked her former colleagues, tweeting out a graphic which compared the votes and seats won by Johnson and Sunak respectively in 2019 and 2024 . The running jokes about the Stanford alumnus expatriating himself immediately to California miss some salient factors about the Sunaks’ lifestyle. One Downing Street aide speaking to me last week expected Sunak to “spend more time in his new sauna”.
As Atkins affirmed in her resignation letter, Johnson’s handling of each incident only further revealed his “fracturing” of “values such as integrity, decency, respect and professionalism”. Nadine Dorries has already begun. “Was it worth it?”, she asked her former colleagues, tweeting out a graphic which compared the votes and seats won by Johnson and Sunak respectively in 2019 and 2024. Johnson won 365 seats while Sunak managed barely a third of that number, with 121. The implication is that Johnson should not have been dethroned.
Boris Johnson’s leadership, his team told Tory MPs, didn’t just guarantee the continuation of Tory government. It guaranteed them holding onto their seats.
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