Patrick Christys: Those who want Boris Johnson to go should be very careful what they wish for

Those who want Boris Johnson to go should be very careful what they wish for.

Having spoken to several backbench MPs to the right of the Tory party, from what they’ve told me their big grand plan is to get rid of Boris and hope David Davis wants the job… That’s it. That’s the plan.

Well, for starters, I’m not 100% sure David Davis wants the job, so that’s quite a big issue. If Boris goes, you quite possibly get someone less electable.

The noises are it’s be a shootout between Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss.

She is held in very high regard behind the scenes. But what about Sunak? What do we know about his politics? His ideology? Has he got one?

Boris hasn’t behaved like a Conservative, but as long as he’s in post there’s at least the chance he might do.

As long as Operation Red Meat doesn’t turn into Operation Tofu then it looks like he’s moving in that direction, it looks like perhaps he’s realised that to be a successful Prime Minister in a Conservative country, you actually have to behave like a Conservative.

Let’s just play the tape forward – So Boris goes, there’s a Tory leadership election, I don’t see how that’s won by a proper Conservative candidate, but whoever wins will get a bump in the polls and ride a wave of national optimism as the pandemic finishes and Britain emerges as the first country in Western Europe to declare victory over Coronavirus.

Boosted by the best vaccine rollout scheme quite possibly anywhere in the world…or, put another way, they’d be riding high off the back of Boris Johnson’s successes.

And then they go in to a General Election… can you imagine having to choose between Sunak and Starmer.

Goodness me, that’s the human equivalent of spending a rainy Sunday afternoon deciding what shade of beige you want the bedside table in your spare room to be.It’s like looking at wet cardboard.

How does Sunak do in the Red Wall? Talking of the Red Wall, it’s supposedly a load of Red Wall MPs who are now trying to oust Boris. They wouldn’t have a job if it wasn’t for this guy.

How did Theresa May fare in Bolsover? How did David Cameron do in Dudley North? Workington had been a Labour seat since 1918, and then along came Boris.

I personally don’t see - if they depose Boris Johnson and replace him with someone like Sunak or Truss - how they’re any more likely to keep their jobs.

And then we have to look at who else is calling for Boris to go. There are lots of lobby correspondents with an axe to grind when it comes to Boris.

Also, surely I can’t be the only one to think that people like Beth Rigby and Kay Burley lack the moral authority to call Boris’ position into question.

They know a thing or two about breaking the rules don’t they. And they’ll say ‘well we’re not in charge’…ok.

But How about this then. Kay Burley’s little party took place, they all exposed themselves to the potential of catching Covid and what was the plan for Kay Burley’s show just a couple of days later?

Well, according to reports, it was going to be presented from Coventry University Hospital.

So they were potentially exposing themselves to Covid, and then going to walk into a building full of sick people. Nice one.

Look, Boris has messed up. He’s not helping himself.

I don’t think he’s being totally honest with us, to say the least frankly, about these parties…but play the tape forward.

Does what happens next look better than what we’ve got now?