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Who’s winning the Tory leadership race?

Daily Politics from the New Statesman

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Boris Johnson, Is He a Tory or a Conservative?

I just think there is a small part of him, and it's a small part he'll never be able to dismiss that will want a return to front line politics in some way. I also think if he wanted to launch any kind of party of his own, that would require funding and very particular issue to get behind. So you think he'd stay within the conservative family? Maybe being a nuisance? Oh, definitely o be. But with people like nigel frage, and examined as well, they were single issue obsessive. One of boris johnson's key strengths, but also key weaknesses, was that he didn't have that sort of one sot of thing that suggested that

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