Lefty
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Not sure they can engineer it without the Johnson lobby calling foul - more infighting, squabbles, resignations probably. They wanted a unity candidate and with Johnson they are going to get the polar opposite. Johnson has been the architect of all the ills that have befallen the Party recently. It was he who ushered in the totally useless Truss, it was he who fell out with half the party and it was he that the cabinet collapsed over very rapidly just 3 months ago. Cummins will be rubbing his hands again in delight as he becomes relevant again.
I’m sure there will be cries of ‘foul’ and ‘stitch up’ especially when Mordaunt then drops out to crown Sunak unopposed, but that is what they will have to do. I don’t think they will care. It’s not like Conservatives are shy of these sort of cynical tactics behind the scenes, they are second nature. And they are quite ruthless too.