Boris is a weak man posing as a tough guy

Boris Johnson is taking over the Conservative party like a gangster taking over a crime syndicate. Don’t let ideological labels mystify you. “Remainer,” “Leaver”,” “no dealer” – these are just words to confuse the credulous and stop them seeing their country clearly.

Power is the only word that need concern you. Power, rather than ideology, is what runs together resignations and sackings, which have seen at least a dozen ministers go – a number that makes Harold Macmillan’s ‘Night of the Long Knives’ look restrained.

Penny Mordaunt and Liam Fox were – and to the best of my knowledge remain – ardent Brexiters: Fox, indeed, was campaigning for Britain to leave the EU when Johnson was showing not the smallest interest in the idea.

The Brexit revolution is devouring its children, not because they failed to follow it ever deeper into extremism but because they backed Hunt rather than Johnson.

Priti Patel, had to resign in 2017 for