Last Saturday night, somewhat abandoned by his night flight back from Delhi, Boris Johnson made a call to Zoom from Checkers with more than 80 of his deputies.
For the prime minister, who had spent the previous 48 hours 4,000 miles away, still haunted by the Downing Street party scandal, the meeting was somewhat invigorating.
In a one-hour local election conversation, no one raised the scandal directly with Johnson, and the only mention came from an MP who assured him that they had spent the whole day campaigning and had never been raised to the threshold.
“The mood was very high,” said an ally of the prime minister. “What we hear on earth
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