My gut feeling is that Boris is trying to work out how the final MPs vote is going to play out. Don't think he'll want the job if Rishi is the one with the MP powerbase. (View Post)
The only caveat is that political leaders have different mindsets compared to normal people, very little self doubt. But I do agree, he'd be mad to come back right now. (View Post)
I was going to say, even if you buy that people will forget the previous stuff, seems... unlikely he will be able to go 2 years without creating new scandals. (View Post)