Dominic Raab warns Boris Johnson returning as PM would be ‘soap opera’

Tories must not return to ‘soap opera of Partygate’ under Boris Johnson, warns Dominic RaabBoris Johnson’s former deputy Dominic Raab has warned Conservative MPs that bringing the ex-PM back into No 10 would risk another episode of Partygate – which he likened to “Groundhog Day” and a “soap opera”.Claiming to believe that Mr Johnson can eventually “make a return to frontline politics”, Mr Raab said: “I just can’t see in practice how a new prime minister ... could give the country the attention, the focus, that it needs” while also giving testimony to the Commons privileges committee inquiry over Partygate.Mr Raab continued: “Whether you’re an arch-Boris fan, or an arch-Boris critic, I don’t see how you can reconcile returning to frontline politics with that committee looming and hanging over him and oral testimony being heard.”He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “We cannot go backwards. We can’t have another episode of the Groundhog Day, of the soap opera, of Partygate. We must get the country and the government moving forward.”BBC Radio 4