Dear James,
Here we go again. A moment of humiliation converted into a desperate resort to bolstering his damaged image at a bravado cabinet meeting the next morning. The night before, a Vote of No Confidence in our flailing and failing Prime Minister, resulted in over 40% of your Tory bretherin telling the world that Boris was unfit to govern. The numbers – 148 rebels against 211 supporters - echoed the booing visited upon his shambling entry into St Paul’s Cathedral last week. This was far worse than similar votes against previous PMs in recent years. Certainly much worse than that against Theresa May in 2018. It was, in fact, an unmitigated disaster.
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