Around ten days ago there was a conference in Bournemouth held by the Conservative Democratic Organisation or, as everyone else calls it, the “Bring Back Boris” faction of the Tory Party. Johnson’s most loyal MPs were all there – Jacob Rees-Mogg, Nadine Dorries, Andrea Jenkyns, and so on. It’s funded by former Conservative chair Peter Cruddas, who was ennobled by Johnson in 2020 despite the unanimous opposition of the House of Lords appointments committee. He donated half a million pounds to the party a