So he says. But if it comes to that point he might conclude there's nothing in it for him and quit, just like Cameron did after the ref. That way he could go down in history as the man who bravely tried to hold rebellious loons together but was unable so to do. Rather than just an abject failure which is what he seems destined for at the moment.
Give it rest for fucks sake.
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He won’t quit unless forced.
Maybe. He won't walk unless pushed, but I don't see him as a Johnson, so bedazzled by his own charisma that he'll expect to win whatever the odds. He's a pragmatist, without the motivation of the swivel eyed ideologues or the passion of the fully tribal. So he has the prospect of leading a failing, fractious mess into an attritional election on a hiding to nothing and with little in the way of direct, personal support, not much of a hat to find a rabbit in and the sure knowledge that he'll be toast immediately after the campaign finishes. A parachute might be exactly what he wants.
He's PM, no one gives up that power willingly.
