This is an excerpt from the weekend's Guardian. The author is Camilla Cavendish, former director of policy for prime minister David Cameron. She is a member of the House of Lords.
"Tory MPs are no longer in awe of Johnson or his winning credentials. But they are still afraid of him.
Behind the charming exterior there is a malevolence that casts blame whenever it is expedient.
On that fateful day in May, it may be that no one dared to challenge Reynolds, (Johnson’s principal private secretary) or Johnson - some people just stayed at their desks, or slunk home.
Good public servants believe that they are serving the office of the prime minister, not just the individual. The problem is that this prime minister has damaged the office.
As the parties pile up - including the latest confirmation of a boozy 2021 leaving do - they should prove fatal because they crystallise something bigger: the cavalier way in which Johnson has run his premiership, the lack of integrity over everything from the Northern Ireland protocol from his attempt to prorogue parliament, to ignoring the standards committee’s findings against the Conservative MP Owen Paterson.
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