Not least because he has allowed indiscipline to reign in Downing Street, for which he deserves to be held accountable. It is, of course, true that one or two Brexiteers are among those calling for Johnson to go. People such as Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford, both fanatical Remainers themselves, who believe Sir Keir Starmer in No 10 would offer a surer route to Scottish independence than the incumbent. What's more, they are giving oxygen to those enemies of Johnson who stand to gain from his fall. But if they refuse to accept Brexit, their own high principles stand for nothing, for they are subverting the democratic process and ignoring the will of the 17.5 million who voted Leave. These 'Remainers manqué' castigate the PM for his supposed incompetence, lies, smears and other moral failings. If Sir John Major (pictured) and May wanted to come to the party's rescue, they would move on from their obsession with Brexit and vendettas against Johnson Or Ben Houchen, the Mayor of Tees Valley, who was re-elected last year in what was once solidly Labour territory with almost 73 per cent of the vote.
Or by Kemi Badenoch, the formidable Levelling Up minister whose Nigerian heritage enables her to give the woke warriors a taste of their own medicine. They are epitomised by Steve Barclay, the new chief of staff at No 10, a no-nonsense Northerner who doesn't hog the limelight but gets things done. Today's Tories are less Home Counties and more regional, less metropolitan and more working-class.
Thanks to his triumph, the party now led by Boris is very different from that of the Major era, or even of David Cameron and Lady May.
No other Conservative politician could have stormed to victory in 2019, not only in Tory but in Labour heartlands - the 'Red Wall'. The Establishment cannot bear the fact that he won the referendum then a general election with an 80-seat majority precisely because he was anti-Establishment.
These diehards are still fighting a proxy war over Europe, even as a real war looms in Ukraine.Īnother Europe fanatic, Lord (Michael) Heseltine (pictured), suggested that public 'anger' over Partygate might lead to a second referendum on the EU It is almost invariably Brexit that lies behind the anti-Johnson pontificating of retired mandarins and knights of the shires and, of course, the BBC. These two latest spiteful interventions, both from former Tory Prime Ministers who might have been expected to show a modicum of loyalty to their embattled successor, join others from a motley crew of MPs, peers and party donors who are eager to stab Johnson in the back. Yet now this elder but none-the-wiser statesman has the gall to criticise Johnson, who has never pretended to be a saint, for his character and conduct. Major only admitted to his adulterous affair with Edwina Currie when she revealed it in her diaries long after he left office, because at the time such an inappropriate liaison with a ministerial colleague would have destroyed him. Pictured: Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon arrives to attend First Minister's Questions (FMQs) at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh on February 10, 2022 These remainers give oxygen to people such as Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford, both fanatical Remainers themselves, who believe Sir Keir Starmer in No 10 would offer a surer route to Scottish independence than the incumbent.
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