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Andrew Mitchell, the Conservative former chief whip and former international development secretary, told Boris Johnson in the Commons yesterday that he could no longer support him. This morning, in an interview on the Today programme, he said that the partygate scandal could break up the coalition that sustains the Conservative party. He said:
I think this is a crisis that is not going to go away and is doing very great damage to the party. It is more corrosive in my judgement than the expenses scandal was and it will break the coalition that is the Conservative party.
I think the problem is that Boris is running a modern government like a medieval court, you need to rule and govern through the structures, through Whitehall, through the cabinet for National Security Council.
Many of us thought he would govern in the way he did when he was Mayor Of London, through being a chairman of a board, running a very good team – that is not what has happened here.
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