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Matthew Parris

Why are sensible Tories backing Boris Johnson?

22 June 2019

9:00 AM

22 June 2019

9:00 AM

It was when Matt Hancock went over to Boris Johnson that something snapped. ‘Every time a child says “I don’t believe in fairies,”’ said Peter Pan, ‘there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.’ When Matt Hancock said this week that he did believe in Boris Johnson, something in me died.

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