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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Hugh Muir

Dear Tory voter: I see you’re getting an emergency letter from Boris Johnson. Things can only get worse

Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak in 2020.
One failed, disgraced PM telling members to vote for another failed, derided PM … Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak in 2020. Photograph: Reuters

And so it has come to pass. We were told some time ago, via the Times and sources very close to Boris Johnson, that eventually Rishi Sunak’s plight would be so very parlous that he would turn to Boris Johnson.

At the time, many of us viewed this as merely more evidence of Boris Johnson’s view of the indispensability of Boris Johnson, but now we learn that Sunak believes in it too, because Johnson is apparently being asked to write to tens of thousands of Tory voters imploring them to vote Tory.

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