A few weeks ago, a backbench Tory MP, convinced that Theresa May’s time was up, had a meeting with Boris Johnson. In a race that is all about winning support from Tory MPs, parliamentary expertise has been drafted in. He then used the same system to map the leadership election, looking at how the electorate of 313 Tory MPs would break down. One figure from the One Nation caucus of moderate Tory MPs explained: “We have to be asking ourselves, what happens in a Boris vs Raab contest? But then there is the elephant in the room of this leadership election – the Johnson Brexit policy.

Source: The Guardian June 09, 2019 07:02 UTC