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The prime minister’s exit not only disgraces him and his party – it indicts the fast-unravelling project that brought him to No 10, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
The Tory MP went from being Boris Johnson's saviour to his assassin in the space of a day amid claims he has been secretly preparing his leadership campaign for months.
Dishonesty has been the one constant in Johnson’s career – in the end the deceit proved too much to bear
The Tory MP's rise to No 11 Downing Street is extraordinary given he arrived as a Kurdish refugee from Iraq aged nine and went on to make a fortune founding YouGov (pictured in the 1990s).
The last time a minority Labour government was formed after an election was in February 1974. There was no “coalition of chaos” then. There wasn’t even a coalition of stability. Harold Wilson chose to go it alone, presenting Labour’s programme for government in the Queen’s Speech and winning the vote on it in the House of Commons.