Well, that didn’t take long. Just one week into the new parliamentary term and a case of civil war has broke out in the Conservative party over Boris Johnson. The former foreign secretary makes the front of most Sunday papers – with some running more than one P1 story about him. Following the news that Johnson is divorcing his wife Marina Wheeler, his ‘close friendship’ with a female former Tory aide makes three papers. The Sunday Times reports that a sleaze dossier – linked to No 10 – on weaponising Johnson’s private has been doing the rounds over the past week. However, the author of the document points out that they no longer work for Theresa May and says they drew this up after the EU referendum.
Next up, Johnson himself has added some fuel to the fire (or thrown a dead
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