Rishi Sunak has won. Now the Tories can restore stability and leave Johnson behind | Simon Jenkins

The parliamentary party must unite around the new prime minister to end the fiasco of the past six years

The comedy is over. The clowns have backed off. Boris Johnson raced from his Caribbean beach to revive his political potency, but for once it failed him. Those who knew him best recoiled in horror. He decided in his arrogance that this was “not the right time”. The money markets shuddered and this morning recovered. Britain is a parliamentary democracy, not a mobocracy. The grownups are taking...