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John Major is telling truths today: “What has been done in the last three years has damaged our country at home and overseas, and I think has damaged the reputation of parliament as well. The blame for these lapses must lie principally, but not only, with the prime minister. But many in his cabinet are culpable too and so are those outside the cabinet who cheered him on. They were silent when they should have spoken out and spoke out only when their silence became self damaging.” Earlier he said “the whole country” knew that the government had broken the law in a “litany” of ways: unlawfully trying to prorogue parliament, ignoring a nationwide lockdown by breaking its own laws in Downing Street and trying to change laws to “protect one of their own”.
Does this amount to a pitch for Mordaunt? She's the only front-runner who wasn't in Johnson's cabinet.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/12/cabinet-did-nothing-while-johnson-damaged-uks-reputation-says-major