Tory pollster Lord Ashcroft is doing focus groups across the country, especially on the EU Referendum. The results don’t look too good for Boris.

In a blog-post today, Lord Ashcroft says, that even among Boris’s admirers, there was a widespread view that “his position owed more to calculation than to principle”.

One voter said:

The only explanation I can think of is that he can see an angle for himself, to get a foothold to get the top job if Cameron loses

another said:

[if Britain voted to leave] Cameron’s position would be untenable. That’s why Boris is doing it – opportunism.

Even the ones more positive to him were unsure…

I think he’s put his neck on the line when he didn’t need to… But you can never tell with Boris, can you?

That campaign to be leader of the Tory party is going well then…