“We would be idiots not to have Boris. He’d take the party back to the highlands again pretty easily. He’s won two major elections, and nobody else in the party matches that at the moment,” Nadine Dorries told me over a fillet steak in June 2013, during a lunch interview for Total Politics magazine.
“He will be a leader of the Tory Party, there’s no doubt.”
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