“I DON’T want to stab the prime minister in the back—I want to stab him in the front so I can see the expression on his face. You’d have to twist the knife, though, because we want it back for [George] Osborne.” This quote, attributed to a Conservative MP by the Sunday Times yesterday, indicates the headache that awaits the prime minister beyond June 23rd. As the referendum nears, the chances of a Tory leadership crisis afterwards, even in the event of a Remain vote, seem to be growing. Andrew Bridgen and Nadine Dorries, two perennial rebels, have insisted that he will face a challenge. Or as their anonymous colleague puts it: “All we have to do is catch the prime minister with a live boy or a dead girl and we are away.”
