said that of course when they picked him as leader, they knew about some of his faults, and i guess if he had a good team around him some of those faults could be minimised. that doesn t seem to have been the case. david gauke, former conservative cabinet minister honestly fell out with mrjohnson over brexit, but i think it is fair to say he is broadly still conservative in his outlook. i don t know if he is a member of the conservative party any longer, that s a matterfor him, but he was saying the conservative party always knew that boris johnson perhaps was a bit shaky on always knew that borisjohnson perhaps was a bit shaky on detail, that he didn t necessarily always have a wholly consistent relationship with the facts. famously of course he didn t tell the truth to michael howard, which is why he sacked him over i think that was an extramarital affair when mrjohnson was on the shadow front wench, that s years ago. but on that basis, it would be rather unfair, wouldn t it, of tori