At the inaugural conference of a group promising to restore grassroots control to the Conservatives and ensure that the party’s MPs can never again impose their own leader, one pivotal figure is notable by his absence: Boris Johnson.
The Conservative Democratic Organisation (CDO), which is gathering in Bournemouth on Saturday, insists it is not a Johnson-revivalist group, and that its only purpose is to make the party more accountable to the rank and file.
