Johnson to rally Brexiteer Tories

Boris Johnson will seek to upstage the Prime Minister and undermine her Brexit strategy at the Conservative Party conference next month, calling on members to back his vision for leaving the EU at a meeting on the fringes of the Birmingham gathering.

Allies of the former foreign secretary said his appearance would be “the biggest draw” at the conference, with a source quoted as saying: “He will make the fringe meeting look like the conference hall and the conference hall will look like a fringe meeting.”

Tories will gather in Birmingham on 30 September, weeks before a crucial EU summit to sign off the UK’S Brexit deal.