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Are there any other Tories in the running that I've not heard of? They've tried promoting one of their beasts / old guards (May) and there must be an inkling at least that doing the same again with Boris (or Davis, or Hammond etc) wouldn't be a good idea.
Unacquainted as I am with Tory MPs is there a group of younger, untainted MPs somewhere that they can pull out rather than them. Who's in it?
Personally I can't see him wanting to launch a leadership campaign soon, it looks like he wants to be sacked so he can spend a while complaining about how bad the Brexit negotiations are going without being involved in them and tarred by them.
Then further down the line he can launch a leadership campaign whilst saying "All this was nothing to do with me guv"