With a Brexit deal and a new team at No 10, the prime minister now has to take responsibility for the rollout of the vaccine
In Boris Johnson’s first year since winning a majority of 80, he has shed as many key aides as most prime ministers do in a full term. He’s already on to his second chancellor and his second cabinet secretary, while two of his one-time closest Downing Street advisers are now firmly on the outside.
Even for a politician famed for reinvention, it risks looking careless. He’s also seen his relationship with his parliamentary party plummet – he has gone from being viewed as a freedom-loving Brexiteer who delivered them the party’s largest majority since Margaret Thatcher to an “authoritarian” politician at odds with many of his MPs on the issue of the day: coronavirus.
