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		</div><p>Boris Johnson has appeared to call on Conservative MPs to &#8220;get behind&#8221; Theresa May, amid claims he is in a &#8220;permanent leadership campaign&#8221;. A WhatsApp message sent by the Foreign Secretary to Commons colleagues also suggested they &#8220;calm down&#8221; following the General Election, ITV News reported.</p>
<p>Mr Johnson&#8217;s eight-point message added Tory MPs must &#8220;stop the narrative&#8221; that Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn &#8220;somehow won this thing&#8221;, noting he &#8220;barely did better&#8221; than Gordon Brown in 2010. The timing of the message, and the subsequent public release of it, will do little to quash speculation Mr Johnson is setting the scene for a potential leadership bid.</p>
<p>Former Conservative chancellor George Osborne, now London Evening Standard editor, mocked Mr Johnson as he discussed the Sunday newspaper headlines on the Andrew Marr Show. He told the BBC programme: &#8220;I&#8217;ve been reading stories about Boris Johnson running a leadership campaign for years. He&#8217;s in a permanent leadership campaign so I&#8217;m not sure it qualifies as news.&#8221;</p>
<p>Sources close to the Foreign Secretary had earlier dismissed reports he was plotting a leadership bid as &#8220;complete bollocks&#8221; and suggested &#8220;someone is trying to make mischief&#8221;. In the messages obtained by ITV, Mr Johnson is said to have written: &#8220;Folks we need to calm down and get behind the Prime Minister.</p>
<p>&#8220;She won more votes than anyone since Margaret Thatcher. I can&#8217;t remember us having anything like 43% of the vote.&#8221; He also said the public &#8220;do not want another election&#8221; and labelled Mrs May a &#8220;woman of extraordinary qualities&#8221;.</p>
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