No 10 aims to move on from political dramas with prime minister seeing his predecessor as a political irrelevance
Close allies of Rishi Sunak on Saturday night dismissed Boris Johnson in contemptuous terms as “just an ex-MP” of no particular importance, as the former prime minister’s political power base appeared to collapse at Westminster.
In a clear attempt to move on from the Johnson era after last week’s devastating privileges committee report on Partygate, Sunak supporters made it clear the prime minister now regarded Johnson as a political irrelevance who no longer posed a real threat.
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