With Boris it isn’t over until it’s over and this political death cannot wait until autumn

Resigned? No he hasn’t. A prime minister offers their resignation to the person who asked them to form a government. That person is the monarch, not the parliamentary Conservative Party, the press or the political editor of the BBC. Boris Johnson has promised to resign in the autumn: he has not, I repeat not, resigned.

This will not do. To put the least charitable gloss on things — always good advice in this man’s case — he has bought himself a couple more months.

There’s a war on. There’s a looming domestic economic crisis to handle. The prime minister’s own new chancellor has already indicated that he has no confidence in this boss. We cannot sail into the summer with a disgraced, derided and