Doug Ford says he would give the Progressive Conservative party a complete “enema” if he was in charge.

But the city councillor and campaign manager for brother Rob Ford won’t say for certain if he would still like the top spot after Tory leader Tim Hudak announced he would step aside Thursday night as Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals took a majority government.

“I don’t know. I’d never rule it out,” Ford told the Toronto Star Friday morning about whether he’s thinking about running. “But I’ll tell you one thing, I’d give that PC party an enema from top to bottom.”

An enema?

“Enema,” he repeats. “Top to bottom.”

For years, the elder Ford has toyed with the idea of running for a higher office — though he’s never committed. Earlier this year he emphatically declared he would not be seeking a seat at Queen’s Park as he once again took a back seat to brother Rob Ford’s bid to be re-elected as mayor.

“My priority is to make sure I get Rob re-elected,” he said Friday as he headed in to city hall where a council meeting continues this morning. The younger Ford brother has been absent since May when he left to seek rehab treatment for substance abuse.

“Never underestimate Rob,” his brother Doug said. “It’s pretty clear that people are willing to give second chances in this city.”

But when tempted with the notion he might like to be premier some day, Doug Ford posits a hypothetical restructuring.

“I’d change the philosophy of the PC party if I was,” he said. “Rob and I represent the front-line union folks. We’re populists. We’re fiscal conservatives, but social liberals. Rob’s a social NDPer. We’ll see what happens. It’s frustrating to see the train go in the wrong direction and as far as I’m concerned they didn’t run a good campaign. I think Tim’s great. Tim’s a bright guy. He would have been a great leader, but didn’t connect with the people.”

Since Rob Ford left for rehab, he has yet to address the latest allegations of crack smoking — captured on video seen by the Star — or new racist, homophobic and sexist remarks heard on audio recordings.

Doug Ford told the Star earlier his brother would respond to those allegations when he returns in July.

The Fords were absent from the bid to have former council colleague Doug Holyday re-elected in their home turf of Etobicoke-Lakeshore, despite their support being touted as one of his reasons for success in the 2013 byelection. Neither Ford was there when Holyday took the podium just before 11 p.m. to announce defeat to Liberal Peter Milczyn.

“We just decided not to get involved this time,” Ford said.

He went on to say he has a new-found respect for Wynne now that she has been elected premier, because it was the people’s choice. He said his brother wanted to call and congratulate her, but could not confirm a previous Toronto Sun report that he had made calls from rehab.

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Wynne and the mayor have not spoken since council stripped Ford of his powers in November.

After a few moments Doug Ford reneged on his earlier thought about Wynne: “I don’t know if they wanted Wynne back. If they had the right candidates and they had a better message, I think Tim could have won,” he said. “It’s the devil they knew compared to the devil they didn’t know.”

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