Senior Tory allies of Boris Johnson believe the former prime minister will be vindicated by the privileges committee inquiry and urged Rishi Sunak to bring him back into frontline politics 🔴 Exclusive from RichardVaughan1
and a potential by-election should he be found to have deliberately misled the Commons over the partygate scandal.that they believed Mr Johnson still had a “big role to play” in the future for the Conservative Party, and called on the Prime Minister to give his predecessor a job.
There remain deep misgivings among Mr Johnson’s biggest supporters over the way he was forced out of office, with the source insisting that their colleagues had “instant buyers’ remorse” once they had removed him from Downing Street.Mr Johnson continues to have strong support among a hardcore of backbenchers, with his allies insisting he had the backing of 122 MPs to make a comeback when Liz Truss resigned as prime minister last year.
The source said that should Mr Johnson navigate the inquiry and its evidence session on Wednesday adeptly then it would “generate further considerable interest in his political future”.
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