Dominic Raab and Johnson

team: The team's main aim is simply to keep heads down and avoid Johnson creating headlines for the wrong reasons, according to The Guardian. There were widespread rumours at Westminster that Johnson's team was keen to see the elimination of Dominic Raab, the only candidate whose Brexit stance outflanked that of the former foreign secretary. His well-disciplined campaign team will continue with their strategy of subjecting him to minimal media exposure, though once the field is narrowed down to two, the final pair will appear in more than a dozen head-to-head hustings for Tory members. Johnson's consigliere, Gavin Williamson, the former defence secretary, who revels in the dark arts of politics, has been exercising the persuasive powers he used as Theresa May's chief whip. Michael Gove Plucky underdog Rory Stewart hinted on Wednesday morning, before he was knocked out of the race, that he and Gove were considering joining forces. But many colleagues fear that when the campaign is over and Johnson makes it to No 10, some of the pledges he has made along the way, across the spectrum of his party from Steve Baker to Matt Hancock, will quickly unravel. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.