The Future of Vice-President Johnson

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Boris Johnson is very good at bouncing back, but this one seems rather fatal. He's going to make a lot of noise from outside the party. And then if the Tories do lose in 2024, he will hawk himself as a replacement. But when you look at polling and when you ask people about him, he's not very popular within the country.

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