wrencat1873 wrote:
I thought that too.
He's certainly made sure that his boss will be right in the firing line when he next faces the cameras and the press.
I also thought that too.
For the
Sunday Times to launch a full-blown attack on the government and PM in particular, something is odd.
My guess is that there's an agenda here where the Sunday Times editorial team are trying to help out Conservative allies who are not Boris. They can see Starmer has got his hands full with internal affairs and so Labour aren't really a threat so they can attack the government without it being a serious boost to Labour, but they can start the drip, drip of undermining the leader. They usually do this with a Labour leader - they pick an attack line that they think the public will believe(like "hates Britain/unpatriotic") and then launch story after story to build up that idea to secure it in the public's minds. Even though Boris is probably enjoying a period of public popularity and sympathy after his own illness, most people will find it easy to believe him being lazy/disorganised/careless when it came to taking his eye off the ball in a crisis, and those aren't qualities that people will want in a crisis.
Boris has made a lot of enemies on his rise to the top, mostly on his own side (the left just thinks he's a buffoon generally, they haven't been personally slighted by his political machinations). Some of those who bent the knee and sucked up to get their Cabinet positions will privately resent him.
Also the Conservative party does "coups" well. There's always more skulduggery behind the scenes, and people smiling and professing loyalty to a leader in public while organising allies and sharpening the knives behind the scenes, in the Tory party, than in Labour. In Labour it tends to break out in to more open factional fighting, and its generally a power struggle between wings of the party, rather than around personalities like the Tories.
I suspect that some of Boris's superficially friendly Cabinet colleagues are leaking a lot of damning information about their leader to the Tory press, in which case, Boris and Cummings war against the BBC may have been focused on the wrong target.
