Boris Johnson landed in London on Saturday morning from a shortened holiday after a supporter said the former prime minister was ready to get his old job back following Liz Truss’s resignation.
Conservative MP James Duddridge on Friday told the PA news agency that Johnson messaged him saying: “We are going to do this. I’m up for it.”
Meanwhile, former Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, whose resignation was instrumental in triggering the unravelling of Johnson’s government, is believed to have become the first to secure more than 100 supporters among Conservative MPs—over the threshold of nomination, according to former Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab….