Boris Johnson has spent much of the past month going through the various stages of grief as he tries to come to terms with the end of his premiership.
On Thursday night, as he watched the first official hustings between Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, he experienced a new emotion — pity.
He told friends he did not think that Sunak, the man he blames for his downfall, was going to make it. “He almost feels sorry for him,” a friend of Johnson said. “[Rishi] got in with a crowd of malcontents who used him as part of their vendetta against Boris. What future is there for him now?”
The outgoing prime minister continues to be a major player in the contest, although his name
