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IAN LAVERY has no pity to spare for the charlatan leaving Downing Street – and says leadership will be found not in the Tory ranks but on the streets of Durham this weekend
The door of 10 Downing Street, London

AS I figuratively put pen to paper the nation is breathing a huge sigh of relief with the dastardly Boris Johnson having just announced he would be resigning. 

There is no doubt that by the time this is published for the Big Meeting that things will have moved on somewhat and we will have a better idea of what the future holds. 

Elements of our fawning media who have always thought he was some sort of celebrity performer, have already begun to describe his speech as being delivered in typical “Boris fashion.” 

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