At the start of a week when the Conservatives face the prospect of two byelection defeats – possible tasters of the general election wipeout to come – voices on the party’s right calling for Boris Johnson to return in some form are growing louder.
On Sunday they came not just through renewed pressure from the Tory-leaning press but from the former chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, who said that Rishi Sunak “should swallow some pride” and bring his rival back into the fold.
