Allies predict that Boris Johnson will boycott the Conservative Party conference this fall in an effort to maintain a low profile after his resignation as prime minister.
While his followers are still holding out hope that he would make a return, he intends to spend the next few weeks “serving his constituency” and supporting Liz Truss.
He would now be a “private person,” according to a Whitehall source, and would “probably not” attend his party’s annual autumn meeting in Birmingham next month.
According to reports, the departing prime minister will refrain from making prominent political comments but is expected to join the lucrative lecture circuit and publish his memoirs.
Will Walden, Mr. Johnson’s communications director when he served as mayor of London, predicted yesterday that he would “go off to earn a lot of money” on LBC radio.
As they were ready to depart Downing Street with their kids, Mr. Johnson’s wife Carrie gave a heartfelt homage to his stint as Prime Minister amid the rumours surrounding his future.
She shared a picture of herself, Mr. Johnson, and their kids Wilfred, 2, and Romy, 9, exiting No. 10 together for the last time on Instagram.
She was carrying Romy while donning a long white dress, and Wilfred, who was clutching his parents’ hands, kicked with his left leg. Mrs. Johnson, 33, posted a brief blog entry about the picture that spoke about how pleased her kids were spending time at No. 10 and Chequers. The family will wait outside No. 10 today to listen to Mr. Johnson’s last remarks.
Additionally, Mr. Walden told ITV that only a “small circle of very, very dedicated Boris acolytes” would support Mr. Johnson staging a comeback, and that it would take a “weird combination of circumstances” for him to do so.
However, Lord Udny-Lister, Mr. Johnson’s former chief of staff at No. 10, said over the weekend that the Conservative MPs would later regret their decision to remove him and that he would be persuaded to compete for leader once again.