So Johnson’s gamble is that the public don’t care what his ministers and advisors get up to and will just shrug and carry on. We just assume that they make the rules to suit themselves. He might well be right, our expectations about the behaviour of politicians and their hangers on are so low, and we are so exhausted by the endless lies and self serving behaviour that we will just let them get away with it, again. But an increasing number of his own backbenchers disagree, and a lot of cabinet ministers will be resenting making themselves even more obviously toadying spineless fools by following the ‘save Dom’ script.
More seriously, let’s hope that everyone feeling a bit peeky doesn’t start visiting their aged parents or grandparents.