Boris v the blue blob
The list of institutions Boris Johnson is at war with includes the Conservative Party
IN A ZOOM call with 250 Conservative MPs on September 11th Boris Johnson pleaded with his party not to return to “miserable squabbling over Europe”. The government handily won the division over the second reading of its controversial internal-market bill, but the squabbling continued regardless. Senior Conservatives fulminated against the legislation. More than 20 Tory MPs refused to back the government on the issue. Even loyal Brexiteers such as Michael Howard and Norman Lamont were indignant.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Boris v the blue blob”
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