As for Liz Truss’s shortcomings, have a look at our Friday pages (4-19)
have only three days to win the support of enough Tory MPs to get on the ballot paper.
Mr Johnson would be a grave mistake: a divisive figure when the Conservative Party needs uniting; a charismatic but shambolic leader at a time when the country demands competent government.without the need to return to the polls, where the party fears a Labour landslide. Lest anyone forget, Mr Johnson squandered his own premiership – and his chance at delivering the promised fruits of Brexit. He was incapable of running a professional operation in Downing Street and he had to be hounded from office by his own Cabinet ministers. He is about to be investigated for misleading Parliament. Forget 2019, his standing among the wider public collapsed.
Admittedly, many alternatives look preferable to Liz Truss. But the country and the Tories can do better than Boris Johnson.
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