He’s recently been in the news for laying into Gary Neville, which will have done his cause no harm at all.
But can he induce the backbenchers who applauded his victory to refrain from civil war?
“It’s certainly not a circumstance that I would wish to see,” says the Chairman of the 1922 Committee
It occurred to me that any Tory who did not wish to indicate a preference in this race could self-declare as a Desultory.
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..
Some of the Tory tribe still drummed their desks in support of their chief: others stood in sombre silence having just assaulted him.
He is a Gulliver tied down by Lilluputian ropes. The figures scampering about his mighty frame grow bolder – tweaking a cord here, tighening a knot there.
A worrying picture is already emerging of parents being unable to get their children into their school of choice.
Having entered Parliament from business, I know first-hand that prosperity is not created by government.
Almost a fifth of respondents protested by either abstaining or writing in for Johnson.
The Director of the Prime Minister’s Policy Unit on his four tests for new Government policies – and moving on from the confidence vote.