The Prime Minister is wounded; there’s no question about it. The question is whether the wound is mortal. Today the resignations continue to trickle in — a PPS here, a junior minister there — but by comparison with the bombshell Cabinet resignations yesterday they simply add to the sense of crisis. And yet here the Prime Minister is, still in office and in power, going nowhere. If he can survive today and then the next two weeks, then he may yet have a chance to redeem himself.
Today is challenging enough. There’s a session with the Commons Liaison Select Committee and what will be a bruising PMQs. Getting through these will stretch even this Prime Minister’s aptitude for rising to the moment, whatever the moment is.
