The Conservatives are riven with factions like never before, and all of them pose a risk to the prime minister
After a week of cabinet defenestrations and the takeover of government by Vote Leave campaigners, the French Revolution has been a regular reference point for Tory MPs. “What we have to remember is that in the end, the mob also came for Robespierre,” one minister observed, painting Boris Johnson as the ruthless revolutionary leader who was eventually consumed by the forces he had helped unleash.
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