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His whole pitch of the british electorate these last few months has been look, i am the quiet after the storm of borisjohnson and liz truss, and i think that his instinct was that he would not want to take on borisjohnson personally and his supporters. that's why i go back to the question at the start of our chat, which is, is a civil war preventable within the governing conservative party? people feel these things very strongly, the borisjohnson supporters generally feel he is a kind of maligned hero. but those who don't like him feel he is an absolute catastrophe who was bringing the conserv...