Boris Johnson had just finished addressing a Conservative fundraising dinner at the Victoria and Albert Museum on Monday evening when a member of the cabinet, outwardly loyal to the prime minister, wandered over to speak to a fellow frontbencher. “Wasn’t it appalling?”The other minister, who had witnessed the rather hackneyed canter through the prime minister’s greatest hits, replied: “Well, you’re in the cabinet. Why don’t you do something about it?”SponsoredDays later a different cabinet minister did do something. Oliver Dowden, the Conservative Party chairman, resigned at 5.35am on Friday after two disastrous Tory by-election losses. Labour won back the “red wall” seat of Wakefield and the Liberal Democrats overturned a Tory majority of 24,000 in Tiverton

Source: The Times June 25, 2022 19:11 UTC