Four of the five Tory Prime Ministers over recent times have clearly at different points in their leadership viewed Williamson as indispensable. But why?
Alastair Campbell: ‘In thinking he could threaten Wendy Morton, with his warning that “everything has a price”, he was laying himself open to the counter attack to which he is now falling victim
laid ostentatiously across his ministerial desk are designed to feed the image that though he may come across as Private Pike fromto the public, in the eyes of MPs we are dealing with the Parliamentary equivalent of the SAS. I don’t buy it, but plenty of people who know him better than I do, four of whom have become Prime Minister, clearly do.The Rest Is Politics
Herein lies what seems to make him tick… keeping in with the people who are, or who one day might be, at the top of the tree. He clearly never saw Liz Truss as remotely capable of reaching No 10 – he can be forgiven for that one – so didn’t really work on his relations with her.
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