The prime minister, whose party faces electoral wipeout, may feel he has no choice but to give the Tories’ star campaigner another chance
At the start of a week when the Conservatives face the prospect of two byelection defeats – possible tasters of the general election wipeout to come – voices on the party’s right calling for Boris Johnson to return in some form are growing louder.
On Sunday they came not just through renewed pressure from the Tory-leaning press but from the former chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, who said that Rishi Sunak “should swallow some pride” and bring his rival back into the fold.
Continue reading…The prime minister, whose party faces electoral wipeout, may feel he has no choice but to give the Tories’ star campaigner another chanceAt the start of a week when the Conservatives face the prospect of two byelection defeats – possible tasters of the general election wipeout to come – voices on the party’s right calling for Boris Johnson to return in some form are growing louder.On Sunday they came not just through renewed pressure from the Tory-leaning press but from the former chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, who said that Rishi Sunak “should swallow some pride” and bring his rival back into the fold. Continue reading…