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I'm being quite careful to keep things acceptably vague. It seems to be fairly commonly accepted that the Brexit win was a horrible mistake though. It was supposed to be Boris positioning himself as the gallant loser who isn't afraid to have the courage of his convictions, and set himself up in pole position when Cameron stood down at the end of this term of government.
oops.
Bad_Science
An interesting day at work, just got home.
Current westminster speculation is that Boris won by accident, and was bricking it but was hoping to ride out the storm and was going to campaign to the party on a "well look, 52% of the country agrees with me" ticket.
However, someone in the Gove camp has let it be known that they have dirt on Boris, and he's done one to stop whatever it is ending up in the papers.
As they say on the news, "a source close to the story" told me this.
It may be just the current rumour going around the playground, but it had a whiff of truth about it.