And so it has come to pass. We were told some time ago, via the Times and sources very close to Boris Johnson, that eventually Rishi Sunak’s plight would be so very parlous that he would turn to Boris Johnson.

At the time, many of us viewed this as merely more evidence of Boris Johnson’s view of the indispensability of Boris Johnson, but now we learn that Sunak believes in it too, because Johnson is apparently being asked to write to tens of thousands of Tory voters imploring them to vote Tory.

That this entails some measure of endorsement of Sunak will, of course, make the task more complicated, as the former Tory prime minister’s regard for the present one is no wider than a silver........

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