Why are moderate Tory MPs moving towards backing Boris Johnson as next prime minister?

Politics Explained: Some Tory Remainers would rather have the buffoon they know than, say, Dominic Raab, who served too briefly as Brexit secretary to make his mark

Amber Rudd, the work and pensions secretary, “liked” a Boris Johnson tweet yesterday, which could have been one of the more significant interactions in the history of social media.

Johnson was responding to the launch of One Nation Conservatives, a group of mostly soft-Brexit Tory MPs. He said: “Agree with all of this. One Nation values have never been more important.”

Three years ago, the then leader of the Leave campaign clashed with Rudd in one of the referendum debates, when she said: “Boris is the life and soul of the party but you wouldn’t want him to drive you home at the end of the evening.”