I will be amazed if he lasts this year, never mind 2024. Indeed, I expect movement this week. How on earth does he survive? His authority is shot and he has no real means of staying in power. What is… (View Post)

Halifax accepted that there was no constitutional bar on him being PM in the Lords; he turned the job down primarily because he didn't want to do it and recognised that Churchill would overshado… (View Post)

Perhaps. But Cummings' demands and man-management were so gratuitous that whatever his other skills, it would have gone wrong for Boris even if Cummings had stayed, because the No 10 operation w… (View Post)

Cummings clearly wants to bring the PM down. If he incurs a minor fine for a Covid breach along the way, I'm sure he'll consider that a price worth paying. That's a different kettle of… (View Post)

But the timing isn't in the hands of Johnson, or his potential successors*; it's in the hands of the Tory MPs - and they may well decide this year that Johnson's time is up. Indeed, I … (View Post)