You can't Carrie on

BORIS' WIFE PERSUADED HIM THAT AT LAST GAME WAS UP

- NIGEL NELSON

BORIS Johnson was persuaded to quit Downing Street by wife Carrie.

The couple had a momentous heart-to-heart after the PM had gathered aides around a takeaway curry at 8pm on Wednesday to rebuild his shattered Government.

Up till then he was still determined to cling to power, despite the resignations of Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Savid Javid whose damning letters opened up a floodgate of Tory quitting among ministers and MPs.

Cabinet ministers including Home Secretary Priti Patel, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps, Business Secretary Kwarsi Kwarteng and Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis also all filed into No10 to persuade the PM his time was up.

An insider said: “That was a really tense meeting. Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries just sat there shooting daggers at everyone. There was only Michael Gove who put it to him that it was over and he had to go. He told him he had until 9pm to make a decision.”

A Whitehall source said: “The PM had been angry all day. In a state of denial. He kept going on about his personal mandate like a broken record.”