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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jessica Elgot and Peter Walker

Boris Johnson plans backbench interventions ‘to protect legacy’

Boris Johnson and Volodymyr Zelenskiy
Boris Johnson fears his successor may not be as committed as he was to supporting Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Photograph: AP

Boris Johnson is planning to stage parliamentary interventions on Ukraine, Brexit and levelling up, with allies of the outgoing prime minister hinting that those are the areas of his legacy he believes to be most under threat from his potential successor.

It comes as a briefing war between current and former No 10 aides exploded into new acrimony, with accusations traded about a working culture alleged to have been overtly macho and, at times, misogynistic.

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