Emails reveal Boris Johnson laying groundwork for election campaign

Signs indicate No 10 on election footing as PM plans meetings to come up with manifesto ideas. Boris Johnson’s No 10 operation is increasingly on an election footing, with leaked internal emails revealing he was due to meet the political strategist Sir Lynton Crosby. As Conservative advisers come under intense pressure to produce manifesto ideas quickly, a well placed source said Johnson had a meeting set up in the next few days with Crosby, the election guru who worked on the campaigns of