Trevor Kavanagh: 'Never has a PM been so friendless - the knives are out for Boris'
“INFAMY, infamy, they’ve all got it in for me!” Never has the old Carry On Cleo joke rung so true for Boris Johnson.Boris has to prove he is the Slippery Pig who can escape the trap he has set himselfIt was a seabed convulsion which will send a tsunami crashing on to Tory shores in the weeks to come.Not this year, maybe. None of those elbowing their way to the front wants his job while there are so many roadside bombs on the way to the next General Election — many planted by Boris himself.
So Boris has five or six months to prove he really is the Slippery Pig who can escape any trap and end up smelling of roses. And, proving there is no such thing as gratitude in politics, wet-behind-the-ears Red Wall Tories who owe everything to Boris but panic at the first sound of gunfire.Most blatant is uber-ambitious Liz Truss, promoted by Boris as Foreign Secretary and using her role to grandstand as his replacement.
Even ocean-going hypocrite Matt Hancock thinks he’s in with a chance despite the “once-seen, never-forgotten”Jeremy Hunt will run — yet another ex-Health Secretary whose admitted failure to plan ahead left the NHS exposed to precisely the pandemic now threatening to sweep Boris away. The Tories cannot risk a Remainer as leader of a government deep in the trenches of ongoing diplomatic war with Brussels. It would split the party asunder and risk handing victory to Keir Starmer.“People know what they are doing when they vote in by-elections,” says one who knows him well."This is about loss of trust. Once you have lost trust it is a hell of a job to get it back.
That would mean taking on the Treasury “blob” whose dead hand has stifled economic flexibility. That’s a big ask.
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