She speaks for all of us, but it could happen less than two months after leaving office

in disgrace by this time next week, or is Johnson could be back in charge?

It's difficult to believe. I feel like I'm almost living through some kind of nightmare if you predicted this six weeks ago that Boris Johnson will be back in charge by the end of October.

I think a few people would have believed you, but it's now very, very believable.

Certainly plausible. He's in the top three candidates, isn't he?

I mean, we'll talk about that more, but the satire that is British political life seems to go from bad to worse.

Who needs fiction, Michael, when we have reality?

Yeah, I mean, it has now become a sort of fantasy plot line that the rest of the world is laughing at.

We're going to talk about that this evening, but obviously the focus is this tour leadership race who is going to be the next Prime Minister.

Boris Johnson is back early from his holiday in the Caribbean, and there's some real momentum behind his unofficial candidacy to be the next Prime Minister.

Paul Bristol MP was the first out of the blocks. He said this just one hour after Liz Truss's resignation.

I went to my constituency at the weekend, and I always wanted to talk to my constituents and see how they feel.

I went to Diwali, I went to the Great Eastern run, I even did some campaigning, and the strong message that I got was bring back Boris Johnson.

I stood in a by-election six months before Boris Johnson, we won that historic mandate, that election.

I came third. We were 19 points behind in the polls before Boris Johnson became Prime Minister.

We face in a similar situation now. I don't know what the situation is going to be, I don't know the rules.

I don't even know if Boris Johnson wants to start, but we need an election winner, and we've had an election winner.

So as long as I'm concerned, I'll listen to my constituents, and their message was bring back Boris.

Do you think many Conservative MPs agree with you?

One of the Conservative members certainly agree with me. We saw the members earlier on, it said that,

if Boris Johnson was the most popular look, it's about making sure that we win as many seats as we possibly can, we get back to good government,

and we get back on the right track. Boris Johnson's got a mandate from the members, he's got a mandate from the country.

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