Johnson sidelining Gove and promoting Frost is going to be a pretty major problem for him. Perhaps not immediately. It means Brexit is going to be more of an issue than it needs to be, at a time when rest of Tory MPs were perhaps ready to partially move on.
Also while Gove is unlikely to be leader, were he to choose to rally behind someone else (also someone pushed aside by Johnson - Sunak for example) you start to see a weakening of Johnson's position.
If The Times piece is right, Johnson promoted Frost because he trusts him, and Frost owes all his power to Johnson. But a good politician is one that doesn't change the apparatus of the state to suit the people who are his mates.
We haven't heard the end of this for sure...
Here's the piece in The Times:
thetimes.co.uk/article/carrie…
Here's the piece in The Times:
thetimes.co.uk/article/carrie…
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