I wanted to write about something else, but I can’t. Boris Johnson comma, Prime Minister full stop , has resigned or has he? It seems he has agreed to go and they are now as ever haggling about if he can hang on to September as a caretaker while the Tories elect a successor. It’s been an exciting 48 hours, started by Savid Javid and Rishi Sunak resigning in both gentile and savage terms. They have been followed by over half the government and counting.
Last night, and yesterday, including an amazing performance at the Parliamentary Liaison Committee where he admits to meeting Lebvedev an ex-KGB agent at one of his bunga bunga parties, without officials and reiterates the fallacious line that he has a 14m vote mandate and is going nowhere however some of the cabinet find their grey suits and visit him last night, they and the remaining cabinet including surprisingly Priti Patel but excluding Nadine Dorries and Michael Gove whom Boris sacked, tell him the game’s up. The following morning he agrees to resign and proposes he acts as caretaker. The same delaying tactics as usual in the hope people, be they voters or commentators will get bored.
This It would seem is unacceptable to the Tories and Kier Starmer says Labour will move a VONC in the House of Commons if that is what he proposes; we should also note that he hasn’t actually resigned and that serving another three months…
