Boris Johnson exit from Tory leadership race avoids likely humiliation

However much the ex-PM blew his own trumpet he knew he did not have enough MPs on side to get back to No 10

For all Boris Johnson’s habitually coy language about his leadership ambitions, one thing is abundantly clear: he only withdraws from a political race if he thinks he cannot win it. And so it was on Sunday night.

The former prime minister’s statement confirming his decision to not stand was a classic of this Johnson genre: equal parts bullish insistence about his own ability to triumph, and a pretend modesty that he is choosing another path for the sake of unity.

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