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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Nesrine Malik

For the Tory party, Boris Johnson is a blip not a crisis

Journalist outside 10 Downing Street
‘What is the alternative to this current Conservative contract?’ A journalist outside 10 Downing Street. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA

Any minute now, no? Surely this is it for Boris Johnson. The party is over. He has managed to get away with it before, but, as someone yelled with relish at prime minister’s questions last week: “Not this time!”

The polls do indeed look bad for the first time in a long while, and a more troubling portent for the prime minister is how the “r” word – resignation – has become thrown about not as a far-fetched demand but as a real possibility.

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