How would a party worker be able to show a text message from David Cameron to Boris Johnson, unless he was holding Mr Cameron’s phone. Either way, it’s revealing.
Nick Robinson: If viewers heard a bit of a cheer there in the hall, that’s interesting for the future of the Tory Party, it was a picture not of David Cameron on his own which they are largely seeing, it was a picture of him and Boris Johnson who has been both the star of this conference and its biggest problem, because he simply refused to follow the script on Europe. Wouldn’t do it, nearly was generating massive headline by doing so, ignored the advice that he was sent. One party worker close to David Cameron showed me a text message that had been sent to Boris as he got on the train home. Not a word of it I think is safely repeatable at any time on television.
Andrew Neil: Really?
NR: Absolutely so furious.
AN: We are often accused of exaggerating this but there is a certain tension between the two. The mayor of London and the leader of the Conservative Party.
NR: They were, they now talk of him in the way that Tony Blair used to occasionally talk about John Prescott. Boris will be Boris, Tony Blair used to say John will be John. It’s a way of saying, what are we supposed to do, what can do about it?
AN: I’m told it all goes back to the fact that they come from different parts of Eton. That Eton’s actually divided into Sunni and Shiite or some equivalent.
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Which one’s the Shiite?
1. The party worker could be holding BoJo’s phone
2. Nowhere in that dialogue does it actually say the text was sent by Cameroon.
3. Is it really surprising that the cons leadership get annoyed with Johnson who can’t help speaking before engaging brain?
Tom, you seem to be obsessed by the Tories at the moment. If you want to join us that’s fine, but we’ll have none of your plotting and scheming thank you very much.
photo os the incident here…
http://twitpic.com/kto1e
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