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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andrew Woodcock and Anna Isaac

Isolated Boris Johnson offers MPs say on policy in bid to stave off coup as more Tories join rebellion

PA

Boris Johnson tried to win over backbenchers by ceding more power on Friday as No 10 insiders told The Independent that the increasingly isolated prime minister was becoming “unpredictable and erratic”.

In the latest stage of his desperate bid to stave off a mutiny by Tory MPs, Mr Johnson announced the creation of backbench committees to advise on government policy and promised he would order cabinet ministers to take their views seriously.

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