said<\/a>, continuing: “At a maximum, we’re talking about 2024… and even then, to overturn an 80 seat majority is a very, very difficult thing to do. So I think we’re likely to be back into hung parliament territory or small Conservative majorities. Either way, we’re a long way off discussing the Labour Party coming into power.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n“The question therefore is there anyone who is going to challenge Boris Johnson from within the Conservative Party? You’ve got the Parliamentary party, but you’ve also got the membership base,” Harris-Quinney said, explaining that the membership are more to the right of the party than the Parliamentary party and would not tolerate another “fake conservative leader”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Harris-Quinney said: “That card has been played time and time again of these people popping up, claiming to be conservatives, and only a few years later, we find out that they’re not. Everyone gets buyers’ remorse about voting for them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“We [the Bow Group] warned about Boris Johnson, we warned about Theresa May in the same way, and I just don’t see the party saying, ‘Jeremy Hunt’s going to take us beyond the liberal metropolitan elite that we voted to get rid of in the Brexit referendum.'”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I don’t think there will be a leadership challenge to Boris Johnson because there is no obvious candidate to take over from him. So whilst I agree he has completely lost moral authority, particularly to deal with the pressing issue of coronavirus, I think he’ll stay and limp on,” he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n