It occurred to me that any Tory who did not wish to indicate a preference in this race could self-declare as a Desultory.
Some MPs continued to boo him, which was as it should be. Johnson delights the pit by infuriating the prigs.
The Leader of the Opposition sounded as ungenerous as those who denounced Thatcher for years after her downfall.
An atmosphere of hysterical light-headedness prevailed in the Committee Corridor. The stakes were so high, and so little could be done.
“She’s the mermaid on the front of the Titanic,” one MP remarked. He would not say who he was supporting, but evidently not Mordaunt..
The outgoing Prime Minister enjoyed calling his opponent Captain Crasheroonie Snoozefest and remaining impartial on the Tory succession.
Johnson’s defeat should not be interpreted as a final victory for the prigs and martinets who presume to tell us how we should lead our lives.
In the course of a bizarre two hours before the Liaison Committee, Johnson showed undiminished abilities as a performer.
Three Conservative backbenchers, and then most damagingly the recently resigned Health Secretary, told the Prime Minister it was time to go.
The Transport Secretary, an early backer of Johnson for the leadership, has become one of the Government’s most trusted media performers
The former Health Secretary fails to propose any way in which patients and their families can stop thinking of themselves as supplicants.
The Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition were today unable even to agree what the questions should be.
Johnson was once again placed under no real pressure by an opponent who relapsed into verbose self-righteousness.