Of course, it doesn't mean Johnson is going to get his way. He faces difficult barriers, and there are significant forces lined up against him.
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The trouble with the Boris Johnson stuff is it's going to play well with his core constituency, and he knows it. It's pure populism - you pitch yourself as the champion of the people facing down an out of touch Establishment elite. Trump did it. Rob Ford did it here in Toronto.
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Thatcher also did it. She raged against civil service mandarins, and also Tory grandees. (With some justification, probably, the British establishment in the late-1970s were hardly entirely comfortable with a woman as PM).
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