reportedly said<\/a> in yet another an upcoming book that he went \u201ctoo fast\u201d on net zero when he was prime minister.<\/p>\nMissing a superstar\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nonetheless, in the absence of Johnson\u2019s media magic, the Conservatives are yet to find a new superstar. The vacuum is conspicuous at the Conservatives\u2019 low-tempo conference \u2014 further complicating current leader Kemi Badenoch\u2019s efforts to keep her position.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe drew a huge crowd wherever he went \u2014 people wanted signatures, they wanted selfies,\u201d said one former Johnson adviser, granted anonymity to speak candidly.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s certainly true that the Tories are lacking big hitters \u2014 and have lacked big hitters for some time. Boris was the exception. Politics generally is worse off for not having big personalities,\u201d this person went on.<\/p>\n
\u201cI do feel that there is a gap now where it\u2019s all a bit boring. Look at Farage. Reform would be nothing without Farage. He grabs their attention. He\u2019s relatable. He\u2019s a man you want to go to the pub with.\u201d<\/p>\n
As long as the vacuum persists, so will talk of Johnson returning to fill it. But would he even want to? Friends question whether Johnson\u2019s ambition for a comeback \u2014 an eternal parlor game in Tory circles \u2014\u00a0is as strong as it once was.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt wouldn\u2019t surprise me if he likes being asked to come back,\u201d his old friend, Shadow Housing Secretary James Cleverly, said Monday morning at the pub. \u201cBut it would surprise me if he wanted to give up what I think is a very, very happy set of personal circumstances at the moment,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Johnson insisted the U.K. had taken back \u201clegal control\u201d after Brexit. The \u201cproblems we face now are illegal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[824,934,309,59,57,58,6875,2795,54008,12174,821,50,633,20651,80791,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-182639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-boris-johnson","9":"tag-brexit","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-gb","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-greatbritain","14":"tag-hong-kong","15":"tag-immigration","16":"tag-james-cleverly-mp","17":"tag-kemi-badenoch","18":"tag-migration","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-nigel-farage","21":"tag-priti-patel","22":"tag-tony-abbott","23":"tag-uk","24":"tag-united-kingdom","25":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}