Was it a threat, or a promise, or just an old movie line?

Hasta la vista, baby, thank you!

Older people know that that was Arnold Schwarzenegger's most famous line from the film The Terminator.

It translates as, see you again, but life is not a movie.

As a big-time politician, Johnson is probably gone, but one of his closest advisers, a former

whiskey salesman, turned lord, turned minister, is very much around.

More on that in a moment.

For, as the defenestrated PM worked his notice period, the race to succeed him was entering

its long, final phase.

Suneck, one, three, seven, truss, one, one, three.

Well, there it is, Liz Truss and Rishi Suneck, Rishi Suneck.

Suneck Truss has been cast as an ideological struggle.

It is if you like the battle of ideas for the direction of the Conservative Party, is it more?

Suneck's place in the final two seemed like a surest thing from the beginning.

He was always ahead.

But Liz Truss's chances changed radically during an aggressive campaign characterized by

infighting and sniping.

Some of it, from a power broker, you've probably never heard of.

David to his mates, Baron Frost of Alenton, to you and me.

To be clear, I think a lot of people have very kindly said to me, they hope I might come

back.

I was going to come onto that.

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