Within hours Rishi Sunak, who has not given a single interview, taken part in a single debate, or set out his plans for government in any way since announcing his candidacy, will likely become our next prime minister.

Those FIVE Zahawi u-turns in full:

Serving Boris
“He’s got to go”
Chancellor, yes please
Letter: Actually you should resign
I’m backing Boris
We must support Rishi

Now we get a man who the Tory members said they didn’t want just two months ago, and who broke Covid law, held onto his green card and whose wife was a non-don, or we get a women with very little experience of high office. Neither with a mandate. Great!

It is perhaps a little unfortunate for Nadhim Zahawi that this was published at the exact moment Boris pulled out.

If you follow the rule that Boris never tells the truth, the real reasons must be fascinating. Either a) he hasn’t got the support b) he doesn’t actually want it c) he’s calculated they’re going to get smashed either way

BREAKING:

Boris Johnson pulls out of the Tory leadership contest

He says he hoped he, Sunak and Mordaunt could come together and unite but they have been unable to do so

This is a masterful political advert, one that made me smile until I realised how depressing it is. This godforsaken country. These awful people. Everything that people warned against came true, and now they're going to put the liars back in power all over again.

Boris somehow winning the next election feels impossible, in the way that Brexit felt impossible.

THREAD: Here's a handy list of Tory MPs who said Boris Johnson had to go in July and are now saying he should be PM. It's been quite the journey for some...

'This is not sustainable and it will only get worse: for you, for the Conservative Party and most importantly of all the country. You must do the right thing and go now' - Nadhim Zahawi, July 2022.

Zahawi says he saw a preview of “Boris 2.0” when he was CX. But Zahawi also at that time told BJ to resign. In a public letter said he was “heartbroken” BJ was not listening advice: “PM: this is not sustainable & it will only get worse…You must do the right thing and go now”

As London mayor, Johnson didn't cut his holiday short when rioting erupted in 2011. As prime minister, Johnson didn't cut his holiday short when the Taliban retook Kabul in 2021. But a sniff of a chance of replacing Truss, and he's on the first jet back from the Caribbean.

The funny thing is that if the Tories put Boris back in, the markets will force him to abandon every policy that made him popular in the first place, cementing the Tories' destruction.

Tory MPS considering re-electing Boris Johnson

Tory MPS considering re-electing Boris Johnson

Fifty desperate degenerates making themselves easier targets for Labour.

Boris Johnson is 'engaging with people from the old phone number he was forced to ditch after it was leaked online,' according to the Times.

It wasn't leaked. It was just left on a website for anyone in the world to find for 15 years. And now he's using it again.