Sacking Green will boost May's popularity within party, Tories say

Damian Green is said to be sad but not surprised by Theresa May’s decision.Sacking Damian Green will have left Theresa May more isolated in cabinet but more popular with backbench MPs and members, senior party figures have said.Instead, MPs have turned their ire on the former police officers whose notes from a confidential inquiry brought down May’s de facto deputy prime minister.