It has been less than a fortnight since Boris Johnson’s premiership exploded so spectacularly just three short years after his triumphant election victory, and he became the latest Tory PM to perish at the hands of his own party. Yet two weeks on, the people who brought him down are already wondering if they hit the right man and what, or who, on Earth will follow him.
Nigel Jones
Boris Johnson is irreplaceable
None of his would-be heirs come remotely close to matching his charisma

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