Mr S has been keeping a close watch on the number of mounting Plan B rebels these past few days and is delighted to see the numbers totting up to more than 80 at the time of writing. But one thing that did catch Steerpike’s eye was the number of onetime Mayites who look set to vote against Boris Johnson’s Covid plan. For the list of mounting rebels includes both May’s former de facto deputy Damian Green and her ex-PPS Andrew Bowie, who last month quit his post as Tory vice chair. Other names include longtime ministers in her government Harriet Baldwin, Greg Clark and Robert Goodwill.
All this just two days after a flurry of briefings in the Sundays about the dancing queen of Maidenhead. The Mail on Sunday roared that ‘Team May plots revenge on Boris’; the Sunday Times cited claims
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