REPORTS suggesting that Boris Johnson may be returning to politics to campaign for the Conservatives in Red Wall seats have been described as “codswallop” by his friend Dame Andrea Jenkyns.

She told GB News: “Boris and Carrie are friends and I see them from time to time. I actually know that they haven’t been in touch, Boris and Rishi haven’t spoken for well over a year.

“This is just codswallop and the timing of it is so blatant. It’s to stop more people putting letters [of no confidence] in to oust the Prime Minister and to stop more people defecting. This is what this is about.”

In a discussion with Martin Daubney and GB News Political Editor Christopher Hope, she continued: “I spoke to him very recently and I’ve been messaging as well.

“I’m not going to divulge personal conversations between Boris, Carrie and I, but any Conservative at the moment, we’re frustrated. We’re fed up just as the country and Conservative voters are, because I think we’re decidedly un-Conservative at the moment.

“I still think what the One Nation lot in our party did to Boris, I think we’re now seeing the results of this. People are fed up.”

She added: “People are sick of what’s going on on the streets.. We’ve got drawn out promises, we’ve got to take control of immigration. We can’t have a two tier policing system.

“As we’ve seen with the Lee Anderson comment, people actually are afraid to express their opinions. Yes, it was very clunky the words that Lee used, and I wouldn’t necessarily have used those, but you could see it was actually trying to demonstrate there was a two tier policing system.

“I still think that the only way our party can be saved is by getting a new leader, as I’ve been saying since November – last chance saloon.”

Dame Andrea, who has submitted a letter of no confidence in the PM, said: “Where we’re hearing there’s like potentially ten people who might cross the floor, I do question how advanced are those conversations, because speaking to colleagues, as I have done today, whose names have been bandied around, they aren’t going anywhere.

“I’m having people say to me they think that it was the wrong decision for Lee to go, I mean that’s his decision. I like Lee, he’s a friend and I wish him all the best. I think he is a great asset to Reform and it’s definitely a shame to lose him.

“I think that he should have retained the whip personally, but we are where we are.”

She added: “I think we need to, all Conservative MPs need to stand up and just fight with every breath now to save the country from the socialists.”