Jonathan Todd

As I was writing my last blog, Boris Johnson was writing his latest act of defiance to David Cameron. With commentary like this from the Spectator’s Coffee House, Johnson seems unlikely to cease pushing this envelope, not least when Andrew Sparrow is amongst those seeing this as part of a long term strategy to make Johnson Tory leader. What with Boris, the ‘Turnip Taliban’ and the looming EU-wars, subject of comment today from Max Hastings, there are various scenarios in which a breakdown of Tory discipline is possible; particularly, if the sheen of winning popularity that now attaches to David Cameron were to corrode. Then Cameron would really find out who his friends are (or aren’t).