It was once the paper of the establishment – but it has been refashioned as ‘the Daily Boris’
Boris Johnson had lost every Commons vote, his overall majority and the support of his own brother last week when the editor of the Telegraph sent an email to subscribers headlined, “Is it really that bleak for Boris?”
After months of unstinting support for its former-columnist-turned-prime-minister, the lack of regret for the departures of either Jo Johnson or former Tory big beasts such as Kenneth Clarke did not come as a huge surprise. Yet the note from
Chris Evans was telling nonetheless for promoting a piece by the editor of the Sunday Telegraph, Allister Heath, that welcomed “a tougher, rougher non-deferential conservatism”. For leave voters, he said, “losing anti-Brexit irreconcilables, especially overrated establishment figures, is a huge step in the right direction”.