We’ve got a wrong ’un in Downing Street. Does anyone have the balls to dislodge this impostor, or must cowering Tory MPs outsource their courage to the voters of North Shropshire next week? There has to be an alternative to the dismal trickle of dirty little stories that only tell us what Boris Johnson’s parliamentary party long suspected, and the country is now learning fast. The prime minister has been rumbled — and for Johnson it’s over. The remaining question is whether he’s going to cling wretchedly on next year with his squirming parliamentary party drifting towards an electoral bruising — or does there exist someone on the government benches, someone notable or someone as yet unknown, with the courage to

Source: The Times December 11, 2021 17:36 UTC