I can't get over how much political capital they're investing in defending this muppet.

At the end of April, I feel like the Tories had built up a fair bit of public goodwill. Undeserved, because of their disastrous lack of action and general indifference through February and March but the public's memory is short, and during this period they were making decisions which were broadly correct and Boris was sick, which got them a lot of sympathy because everyone had forgotten it was very likely he got sick because of his deep personal stupidity and inability to take basic precautions.

Then, the official figures are revised to include care home deaths and suddenly we have one of the worst if not the worst death-toll in Europe, and then a muddled and largely pointless revision to the lockdown rules randomly sending people back to work and suddenly they're looking shaky but I would say at this point people are still more on their side than not. Then, the Cummings story broke and then they double, triple, quadruple down on defending him, burning their popularity, credibility, cornavirus strategy, everything just to keep this mediocre pseudo-intellectual adviser in post. It's mental.