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PM on the brink as ally calls his exit ‘inevitable’

Boris Johnson’s desperate efforts to save his premiership were undermined last weekend as one of his most loyal backbench supporters said it was now “inevitable” that Tory MPs would remove him from office over the “party gate” scandal.

Sir Charles Walker, a former vice-chairman of the 1922 Committee of backbench Conservative MPs, implored the prime minister

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