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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rowena Mason and Ben Quinn

Boris Johnson: the week the wheels finally came off the bandwagon

Boris Johnson
Johnson has told parliamentary backers to ignore Monday’s motion – a move that avoids a concrete measurement of how many MPs would have turned out to support him. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

“It’s all extremely depressing, all this tearing each other apart,” says one Tory MP and former minister whose career thrived under Boris Johnson but who now holds no candle for his former boss.

“Most of us just want a period of silence from him so we can get on with saving what we can before the next election. But there’s not very much chance of that happening.”

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