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A double cabinet resignation is a blow Boris is unlikely to survive

6 July 2022

3:49 AM

6 July 2022

3:49 AM

So it has started. The joint resignation of Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid marks a cabinet coup against Boris Johnson, seeking to remove him without the need for a parliamentary revolt. ‘This will be a cabinet thing, not a party thing,’ one minister told me earlier: ‘Someone will have to resign, then others will be faced with a choice.’

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