[jfman]

It’s Johnson’s populism that’s tearing the party apart. He’s some distance from traditional conservative values. By attempting to be all things to all people he’s made it a broad church from red wall former Labour voters to the left and UKIP voters to the right somewhere in there it becomes a difficult balancing act.

As a Brexit Government they’ve culled almost anyone who campaigned to remain from the Cabinet and many from the Parliamentary party haven’t sought re-election. A Conservative Government is traditionally pale, male, stale. But broadly considered to a sizeable proportion of the electorate a safe pair of hands.

Leaping from chaotic event to chaotic event isn’t something that traditional, non-red wall, non-UKIP types find appealing.