New Tory leader calls Boris Johnson a ‘great prime minister’ who fell into a ‘trap’ over Covid rules
www.theguardian.com
Why don't ANY of them have the nerve to totally trash Johnson? He isn't ever coming back and the vast majority of people despise him (and are repulsed when his [ex]party continue to blindly defend him in the face of all evidence), it's an easy win if you just say that he was a disgrace in office and you're fundamentally moving away from him and his toxic legacy. It's not as if you have to trash a Thatcher-style figure who plenty would still say had the right ideas, because he didn't have any ideas. He was shit.
But no, continue to say he was great, see how that works out for you.