What the papers say: Boris's 'naked pitch' for the top job

Has Boris Johnson launched a military coup? Based on ‘some of the chatter coming out of the Westminster Bubble’, you’d be forgiven for thinking his Brexit intervention was just that, says the Sun. It’s time for everybody to ‘calm down’, the paper urges. Yes, some of those who have questioned the timing of the article – published in the run-up to Theresa May’s major speech on Brexit this Friday – may have a point. But Boris is nonetheless ‘entitled to a view on what Britain might look like after we leave the EU’. The Tories need to quit the fighting amongst themselves and realise that the only ones to benefit from this squabbling are ‘Jeremy Corbyn and his union paymasters’. The Prime Minister’s ‘previous Brexit speeches have both been well-received at home and abroad’ – and ‘there’s no reason to think this one will be any different’, says the Sun. The PM has made much of getting on with the job – and the Conservatives need to join her and ‘do just that,’ concludes the Sun.