Inside the assassination bureau
The 1922 Committee is adept at removing prime ministers. How long before its head prefect pays Rishi Sunak a visit?
ByGraham Brady
Boris Johnson’s premiership is over
The Tory MPs who were propping up the Prime Minister have departed en masse today.
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Graham Brady’s Diary: What the press got wrong about the confidence vote, and my very odd kind of celebrity
Press reports on how close I was to hearing from the requisite 54 Conservative MPs were almost always wide of…
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Will Tory MPs remove Boris Johnson in no-confidence vote?
Since the vote is anonymous, it is difficult to predict how even the most loyal of Johnson’s supporters may vote.
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Why the cabinet, not Tory rebels, holds the key to ending Boris Johnson’s premiership
Eventually this pathetic spectacle will have to be put to an end by those who actually wield the power.
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How much danger is Boris Johnson in?
If a confidence vote does happen, the Prime Minister’s authority will be shot even if he wins it.
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Why Tory MPs have given Boris Johnson a stay of execution
The uncomfortable spectacle of Labour profiting from Conservative divisions has persuaded many MPs to hold fire.
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