Boris Johnson sounded defiance today as he faces more Tory plotting – and rumours that Red Wall MPs are mulling defection to Labour.
The PM trolled his critics in the wake of two by-election drubbings by making clear he wants to stay in Downing Street until the mid-2030s.
Mr Johnson said he was ‘thinking actively’ about fighting for a third term – which would almost certainly take him past Margaret Thatcher’s 11 years in power.
But the attacks kept coming today, with the resignation of party chair Oliver Dowden on Friday having sent the temperature soaring.
Labour insiders claimed to the Sunday Times that half-a-dozen Tory MPs are considering defecting.
One of the candidates to succeed Mr Johnson told The Mail on Sunday that they expected the PM to face a challenge ‘within weeks or even days’ following the disastrous results in Wakefield and Tiverton & Honiton.
More no-confidence letters are also thought to have been sent to the backbench 1922 committee, even though Mr Johnson…