If this was a Prime Minister dangling by a thread, then his former ally Sajid Javid may have just been the one to cut it.
The beleaguered, scandal-hit Boris Johnson had dragged himself through a most brutal session of Prime Minister's Questions, the toughest he has ever faced. As well as a pitch perfect, devastating attack from Labour leader Keir Starmer, there were multiple resignation calls from his own back benches.
Battered and bloody, Mr Johnson will have winced as he remembered that the question time he had barely survived would be followed by the official resignation letter of one of his former allies, the outgoing health secretary Sajid Javid.
