I may be wrong but I think Boris Johnson is done for. I can’t see his Tory cult surviving

Polls show he’s increasingly reviled and his party’s attempts to counterattack are chaotic. The end feels nigh

Which malicious cleric made the PM read that punishingly inappropriate Bible passage extolling, “Whatever is true, whatever is honourable, whatever is just, whatever is pure”? Picture: Dan Kitwood/PA Wire

The jubilee coup is under way. The rumbling turmoil in the Tory party is a wonder to behold – but it runs deep, stretching far further back in time than Boris Johnson’s brief calamitous leadership.

The old chameleon party used to pick itself up and start all over again with some new face and logo, feigning ignorance of all that went before. Not this time. This is a party riddled with eccentric ideologues too remote from moderate election-winning ground to select any leader but one of their ilk.