Boris Johnson falls back in line but some Tory MPs are still incandescent with rage
Manchester — Halfway into her Conservative Party conference, UK Prime Minister Theresa May is still spending most of her airtime brushing off questions about Boris Johnson, whose latest climbdown was privately celebrated by her allies. Her foreign secretary’s all-too-frequent forays into Brexit have raised questions about his leadership ambitions and frustrated colleagues who just wanted to get through the four-day gathering without all the "psychodrama," as Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson put it. Late on Monday night, Johnson emerged to say he was behind "every comma, every full stop, every syllable of the prime minister’s excellent Florence speech," which he had undermined last month with his own 4,200-word essay on how the UK should manage the divorce. At cocktail-fuelled parties Monday night, cabinet ministers loyal to May were pleased at how the latest chapter of the Johnson saga had played out. Their interpretation was that the perennial contender had destabilised the party...
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