Boris Johnson believes Theresa May will be driven from Downing Street within a year and plans one last tilt at the Tory leadership.
In a move that will unleash civil war at the Conservative Party conference this weekend, allies of the foreign secretary warned that Tory donors were preparing to move their money offshore because the prime minister was “driving the party into the ground”.
One leading Eurosceptic said a coup to remove May could “take off fast” unless she got a grip.
In a further blow to May’s authority, it emerged that Johnson privately mocked the prime minister, joking that her former aides Fiona Hill and Nick Timothy held her in a state of “modern slavery”.
His jibes were revealed by Channel 4 after