‘Unleash Hell!’ – How Boris Johnson told Jacob Rees-Mogg to undermine Rishi Sunak

Johnson’s order came after he and Rees-Mogg joked about Sunak’s small stature, writes the former prime minister’s communications chief Guto Harri

If we had the chance tomorrow, I’d vote to rejoin the EU (PA/Reuters)

The day Boris Johnson asked me to become his communications chief last February, only two of us were in the room. At one point I was saluting, and he took the knee. It was unorthodox and memorable, as recounted in the first episode of my podcast series, Unprecedented. It was also swift and decisive.

Days later, however, I discovered that one powerful group within the parliamentary Conservative Party did, in effect, have a veto.