Tories are asking the wrong question if they believe grubby careerist Boris Johnson is the answer.
The serial liar and cheat is an unfunny clown who, as an inglorious Foreign Secretary, extended a British mother’s jail sentence in Iran and as woeful London Mayor squandered £53million on an unbuilt garden bridge.
Him succeeding Theresa May would sink the party deeper into an unprincipled cesspit.
Dead and buried a few months ago, in Westminster I’m suddenly hearing dazed Tory MPs, who utterly detest the unscrupulous chancer, worrying their nemesis might be the party’s next leader and our country’s PM.
The thinking goes that the worse it is for a warring party plummeting in the polls – and braced for council and European election kickings – the more likely the desperate are to surrender to the cause of their desperation.
Rewarding jaundiced Johnson for self-serving Brexit fibs largely responsible for the current chaos would be like signing a weekly direct debit for the burglar who just ransacked your home and stole the family silver.
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MPs who know the manipulative Me-Me-Me egomaniac best like him least yet increasingly fret his could be the second of two names, with Jeremy Hunt tipped to be the first, forwarded by parliamentary bishops to a Tory sect down to 120,000 worshippers in the temple of Brextremism.
Johnson’s campaign is up and running in Westminster, where enemies who hoped to keep their dishonest nemesis off the shortlist are growing nervous as common sense flies out of the window.
Opportunism knocks undeservedly for an unprincipled twister who eventually backed May’s bad Brexit deal – one he’d claimed would turn Britain into a “vassal state”, surrendering Unionist chums in Northern Ireland’s “semi-colony” of Europe.
The £40,000 here and £130,000 there Johnson banks for speeches, on top of a “chicken feed” £275,000 to regurgitate tosh for the Daily Torygraph, is beyond obscene when things worsen for grafters and the poor are short-changed by Universal Credit cuts.
He and Trump will be soul-mates should the twin horrors meet when the US President plops in this June.
Both are strangers to the truth, guilty of odious racism and are Me-Me-Me egomaniacs elevating themselves first, second and third.
Johnson would finish off, not revive, the Tories.
