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Boris Johnson is a sorcerer who has run out of spells, a wizard with a broken wand

The Tory leader tried every trick he knew and his party still suffered a double-whammy of byelection defeats

The Guardian - UK

I quit! The art of writing the great resignation letter

Oliver Dowden’s wounded farewell note last week was full of the kind of passive aggression found in classics of the genre

The Guardian - UK

How Boris Johnson's Rwanda jaunt descended into the most Boris Johnson thing ever

Boris Johnson bumbled into the Commonwealth Heads of Government Summit in Rwanda with his usual chaotic charm. But as Prince Charles and by-elections gave him a headache bigger than an anti-malarial, it all started to go wrong...

Daily Mirror

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Boris Johnson’s aspiration to serve for a third term ‘delusional’

Prime minister under fire after insisting he will not change his behaviour in office

The Guardian - UK

PM tells Tory plotters: Stop focusing on things I’m meant to have stuffed up

Boris Johnson is facing new pressure after the Conservatives suffered a double by-election defeat.

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson says speculation over his future is driving British people ‘nuts’

PM says his position is settled and he will not be distracted by ‘endless churn’ of news claiming he ‘stuffed up’

The Guardian - UK

Boris Johnson ‘planned £150,000 treehouse with bulletproof glass for son at Chequers’

Security concerns reportedly raised over the Johnsons’ plans for Wilf just months after he was born

The Independent UK

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Boris Johnson's allies eye up Priti Patel for Tory chairman role

BORIS Johnson’s allies are signalling support for Priti Patel as the new Tory Party chairman – but her own sources are pushing back at the idea.

The National (Scotland)

No ‘psychological transformation’ from me, says Johnson as pressure mounts

Prime Minister argues every Government gets ‘buffeted’ by bad by-election results mid-term, and claims people are ‘sick’ of hearing about him.

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson: Voters are fed up of hearing about me and I won’t change

The Prime Minister also claimed voters are tired of hearing about what ‘I’m alleged to have done wrong’

Evening Standard

Boris Johnson says he is not going to undergo ‘psychological transformation’

PM says he must ‘humbly and sincerely’ accept criticism but that bad byelection results are common for governments

The Guardian - UK

Boris Johnson plotted hugely expensive treehouse for his son at Chequers

It would have been funded by a donor who played a central role in another infamous saga of the Prime Minister's...

The National (Scotland)

Boris Johnson says change to his character ‘not going to happen’ as pressure mounts over byelection defeats – as it happened

Prime minister attributes byelection defeats to voters’ frustration with hearing the news about ‘things I got wrong’

The Guardian - UK

By-election defeats pile pressure on Boris Johnson’s leadership

The Prime Minister was forced to defend his premiership at a Commonwealth leaders summit 4,000 miles away in Rwanda.

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The Guardian - UK

‘The country would be better off’: senior Tories urge Boris Johnson to quit

Ex-leader Michael Howard among Conservatives to call for resignation after byelection catastrophes

Manchester Evening News

Greater Manchester's Tory MPs responses to brutal by-election defeats may just say it all

The Conservative party suffered two surprise blows in the by-elections, rounded out with the party chair's resignation

The Guardian - UK

Of course the Convict wouldn’t resign – that’s for little people like Dowden

‘The way forward is not to focus on personalities,’ said the man whose whole career has been built on his personality

The Guardian - UK

Two ways to bring down a PM: Boris Johnson’s rebels see opportunities

Johnson was defiant in Rwanda after his byelection disasters, but at home there was renewed Tory anger

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Daily Mirror

Psychologist on Boris Johnson's sense of 'entitlement' means he can't escape disaster

Behaviour expert and psychologist Dr Pam Spurr says those who often have a sense of entitlement, can feel they are permitted to act and do as they wish - and those who end up in powerful positions can be "natural risktakers"

The Independent UK

How Tory plot to topple Boris Johnson could play out

Insiders say a second no-confidence vote among MPs would now produce a very different result from the first

Evening Standard

Boris Johnson says by-election defeat ‘not brilliant’ and ‘people will continue to beat me up’

Boris Johnson has admitted the by-election results were not “brilliant” for the Tories as he said people will continue to “beat” him.

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson vows to push on as voters ‘beat me up’ in by-elections

Former Conservative leader Michael Howard urged the Prime Minister to resign for the good of their party and the nation.

Bristol Post

'Disgusted' Carol Vorderman calls for Boris Johnson 'to go now'

Boris Johnson has faced further calls to resign after the Conservatives lost by-elections in Wakefield and Tiverton and Honiton, Devon

The Guardian - UK

Oliver Dowden’s resignation puts Boris Johnson in dangerous territory

If the prime minister’s loyalists continue to turn on him, these disastrous byelection results could lead to real trouble, says the Spectator’s deputy political editor, Katy Balls

Daily Mirror

Gary Neville urges Rishi Sunak to "do decent thing" and resign after Oliver Dowden exit

Prime Minister Boris Johnson was humiliated in the Tiverton & Honiton and Wakefield by-elections with Conservative co-chair Oliver Dowden quitting his role on Friday

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