I'm trying very hard not to imagine a media campaign to push Gove and Hunt as a "dream team". Mainly because it's not far off lunch and I want an appetite.
I'm trying to picture the scenes at the moment. Somehow I feel team Boris are doing the headless chickens thing, but the man himself is probably bumbling along just expecting it to "be sorted" like everything else in his life has been.
There needs to come a point where the people who would have supported Boris if he were allowed to stand after losing a NC vote have started to indicate their second choice, so to speak.
If DC is sticking to his master plan, all of this is not a personal attack on Boris (and it's interesting to remove that idea) but a sustained attack on a Tory party he detests as part of a system he detests.
Boris is just the one who was stupid enough to put his hand up when the call for a useful idiot went out.
All idle speculation, of course. But I can't imagine the Tory party is any stranger to the suspicion and paranoia at the moment. Which is why it's such fun to peddle ideas about Brexit being a shambles (even the Telegraph agrees on that) because the Tories are riddled with closet remainers.
For example it's hard to argue that Mark Francois isn't anything but a deep planted remainer whose mission was to make Brexiteers look like complete tits in the public eye. You might have tried to argue it, but when he goes to the drama of self-publishing his "banned" book (which pretty much guaranteed it's appalling prose would be subject to ridicule) then it's pretty much a slam-dunk case closed.