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Few would rule out the prime minister staging a comeback, if only to prove his opponents wrong

Even now, Boris Johnson’s critics insist he is a buffoon who doesn’t take the grandest office of state seriously. Yet, as those who would unseat him have learned, becoming British Prime Minister was the culmination of his life’s work, an against-the-odds achievement defying all political norms. He takes it very…

The phone call that Boris Johnson was bracing for finally came as he was preparing for the Platinum Jubilee finale on June 5. Conservative Party grandee Graham Brady confirmed that more than 15% of the prime minister’s own MPs had submitted letters of no-confidence. A vote on his future was…

PM could join lecture circuit and rejoin paper where he complained of ‘chicken feed’ £250,000 salary