Boris Johnson's political future has been thrown into jeopardy once again after the Tories lost two crunch by-elections and the PM's party chairman dramatically quit.
Oliver Dowden, a long-standing ally of the Prime Minister's and the MP appointed to get the Tories ready for a general election, resigned "with immediate effect" in the early hours of Friday, after the Tories lost Red Wall northern seat Wakefield to Labour and true blue West Country seat Tiverton and Honiton to the Lib Dems.
The electoral catastrophe will undoubtedly spark fresh calls for the Prime Minister to stand down, after he narrowly survived a motion of no confidence earlier this month over the Partygate scandal.
