Desperate Boris Johnson invoked The Lion King today as he gave staff a "half-time pep talk" to stop more staff following five aides out the door.
The embattled Prime Minister admitted "shock and shell" had been hurled at him in recent weeks as he faces Tory fury.
Yesterday Munira Mirza, one of his longest-serving aides and one of the five women he says shaped his life, quit in disgust.