PHILIPE
Veteran Member
Boris is also a bully, because he's a coward. He demonstrates no "steel" in anything he says or does, and he goes out of his way to avoid interacting with anyone who disagrees with him.
It was interesting yesterday to see the thought raised that Boris might seek to overturn the Julian Lewis appointment, which he could possibly do in the House of Commons. It would involve a 90 minute debate, which would doubtless be embarrassing to him in the first place, and it would not be inconceivable that he'd lose the vote. I wondered if the thought had been put about by "sources close to the prime minister" just to gauge the reaction, which was probably hostile, so the idea will probably be abandoned. Even if it went ahead, and even if he won the vote, it would significantly increase the number of back-bench Conservative MPs who would cross to the other side of the road and walk on when they came across Boris dying in a ditch. He will need their support at some point in the future, and the bullying tactics of removing the party whip are going to backfire on him before long.
Boris has now achieved his goal of becoming prime minister, so his overriding goal now is to have been prime minister, in a way in which people look back to the "good old days" of his time in power. That's extremely unlikely to happen. Even good prime ministers generally get remembered for bad things.
According The Guardian, the Civil Service appointment investigating Priti Patel's bullying allegation case has been "moved" because she refused to exonerate her on a particular charge. Oh., the Government are trying to get out of publishing the Report