Boris Johnson will aim to reset his premiership today with a pledge to northern Tory MPs that he will not abandon them in favour of a more metropolitan agenda. Allies of the Prime Minister last night said he would assure the northern MPs that levelling up the country is his ‘personal’ ambition and they will not be abandoned. ‘Northern working-class people are hard to win over and that we have to deliver for them,’ they added. ‘If he wants to satisfy the voice of the North, why not make his chief-of-staff from the North?’ they asked. That is total and utter b*****ks.’The source said the Prime Minister’s meeting with the Northern Research Group marked the start of a new relationship between Downing Street and backbenchers.

Source: Daily Mail November 15, 2020 23:08 UTC