Rob Ray
Weight is meaningless
Zahawi has been tipped repeatedly as a potential leadership hopeful. Even a short stint as Chancellor is a big recognition boost for him, plus it'll play well with Boris loyalists in the membership. He doesn't lose much if Johnson goes as he can always say it's "loyalty to the country not the incumbent".These people who jumped into the vacant seats yesterday to be chancellor & health sec are they betting that johnson will survive?
Barclay might just want one of the big jobs by his name I guess. He's been pretty firmly hitched to Johnson's clown car for a long while though so may just be doing as he's told.