Katy Balls Katy Balls

Nick Boles has said what a lot of Tory MPs are thinking

It’s the end of the week and it’s hard to say what the government has actually achieved. Whether it’s deciding not to launch a judicial inquiry in the John Worboys case or not to tackle the growing pressures on the NHS, the government appears to be in a state of drift.

Unfortunately for Theresa May this has caught the attention of one of her more amiable MPs. Step forward Nick Boles. The former minister has taken to social media on a Friday night to criticise his party leader. Boles says ‘there is a timidity and lack of ambition about Mrs May’s Government which means it constantly disappoints’. He concludes that she must ‘raise her game’.

https://twitter.com/NickBoles/status/954409789152514049

This unprecedented intervention will worry No 10 is that Boles is no typical rebel.

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