Boris Johnson was reportedly planning an extraordinary political comeback last night as he privately urged Conservative MPs, including his rival and odds-on favourite Rishi Sunak to support him in the race to become Prime Minister following Liz Truss’s humiliating resignation only 44 days into the job.
Just weeks after being pushed out, and telling the House of Commons: ‘Hasa la vista, baby!’, Boris Johnson is said to be shoring up alliances by insisting he’s the only contender who can win an election against Labour’s Sir Keir Starmer.
Nevertheless, he will need the support of at least 100 MPs if he wants to become only the third prime minister in history to return for a second time after leaving office, following in the footsteps of his hero, Winston Churchill, and Labour’s Harold Wilson.
While it’s believed he already has the support of 50, compared to Rishi Sunak 39, the possibility of a Boris comeback has forced other Tory MPs to threaten to resign and trigger by-elections, with one branding him ‘ego on sticks’ and another telling him to ‘go back to the beach’. Boris Johnson is presently away on holiday but is said to be planning a speedy return amid the Tory’s latest leadership crisis.
In a bid to mend divisions in the party, he’s reportedly pressing Rishi Sunak, his former Chancellor, to reach out and ‘get back together’. The remarkable olive branch follows months of feuding after the former chancellor was accused of ‘knifing Boris in the back’ when he dramatically left his cabinet post, sparking a ripple of resignations that eventually overturned Boris Johnson’s premiership.
It comes after a source said Boris Johnson admitted he’d made mistakes and he would now be willing to reach out to talents across the party and be a healing, unifying leader.
However, friends of Rishi Sunak doused hopes of a happy reunion, telling a newspaper outlet that while he wants to bury the hatchet, his plan was to become Prime Minister so that he could get on with the task of rebuilding a battered economy.
A source told a newspaper outlet that Rishi Sunak also had his eyes on another possible teammate, Penny Mordaunt. However, she was said to be rejecting his attempts to form a joint ticket, as the current Leader of the Commons and didn’t want to play second fiddle.
Boris Johnson isn’t the best solution, but at least the British people know what they’re dealing with if Boris gets back in, even if he is the biggest liar in history. Although, wasn’t it Tony Blair that was the biggest liar in history, or has everyone forgotten?
Boris Johnson has been an international embarrassment, and Rishi Sunak stabbed him in the back, but what choice do we have? Shrek or Donkey.
Boris Johnson has been fired from almost every job he’s ever been in, all you have to do is Google his employment history and why he left.
He lied to his wife and children and cheated on his wife. He lied to the Queen to keep parliament open and lied to his cabinet, his party and his voters about attending drinking events during the lockdown.
He lied to the public about protecting our borders prior to Brexit and he lied to Brexit voters about having an oven-ready deal, and anyone who still believes he’s a man of character is fooling themselves, and just when you thought Great Britain couldn’t get any more embarrassing they announce that Boris Johnson wants to become Prime Minister again, it’s so funny, it’s unbelievable, and then people wonder why the world is laughing at us.
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