Inside Gavin Williamson's 'bully-boy' campaign to drive Boris Johnson into No 10 as he resorts to 'threats' against fellow MPs to force them to back him Former Tory Chief Whip faced claims he used ‘threats’ against fellow MPs Telling former Ministers they would not return to office unless they backed Boris Mr Williamson also accused of scaring colleagues with dire polling figures
By Brendan Carlin for The Mail on Sunday
Published: 22:03 BST, 15 June 2019 | Updated: 22:03 BST, 15 June 2019
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Gavin Williamson was last night accused of mounting a ‘bully-boy’ campaign to drive Boris Johnson into No 10.
The former Tory Chief Whip faced claims that he was resorting to ‘threats’ against fellow MPs to force them to back Mr Johnson.
That allegedly included telling former Ministers there was no way back into office unless they backed Boris in the first round of voting.
Mr Williamson was also accused of trying to scare colleagues into the Johnson camp by showing them dire polling figures showing they would lose