“It would be better to just put the other guys in and let them f*** it up and come back with more of an idea of what we want to do,’ one minister suggests

The dark cloud sitting over Boris Johnson’s leadership lifted a little this week, but his party is splintering as factions compete over where it goes next.

Attention may have switched to Ukraine, and speculation over the number of backbencher letters of no confidence has subsided, with MPs back in their constituencies for the parliamentary break.

But the brief respite from the Downing Street soap opera has allowed a longer-term problem for the Conservatives to come into focus – the party is wracked by division and doesn’t know where it is heading.

MPs are split along a growing number of overlapping lines: big state v small state, “Red Wall” v “Blue Wall”, One Nation v libertarian right, pro or anti net zero, and Johnson loyalists v those who think it’s time for the PM to go in the wake of the “partygate” scandal.

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