Bring back Boris voices are growing louder but will a desperate Sunak listen?

The prime minister, whose party faces electoral wipeout, may feel he has no choice but to give the Tories' star campaigner another chance

At the start of a week when the Conservatives face the prospect of two byelection defeats - possible tasters of the general election wipeout to come - voices on the party's right calling for Boris Johnson to return in some form are growing louder.

On Sunday they came not just through renewed pressure from the Tory-leaning press but from former chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng that Rishi Sunak should swallow some pride" and bring his rival back into the fold.