Never has any such moment elicited so little sympathy

As the Downing Street door opened and its downstairs toilet flushed out its familiar payload for the final time, it’s important to point out, in the interest of balance, that not everyone in the crowd was booing. Quite a lot of them were simply shouting “arsehole”.

- TOM PECK

Sometimes they could not be heard at all, drowned out beneath a sound system on the back of a lorry, driving about and playing the Benny Hill Show theme music.

It could hardly have been more appropriate. The day had begun in a fashion more farcical than anything Benny Hill ever dreamt up. Nadhim Zahawi, chancellor for 24 hours, publishing a letter on Treasury-headed paper and then tweeting it, telling the prime minister he had been defending on air, the day before, that it was time to go.

Nadhim Zahawi had gone on air and told people that Johnson was an honest person, that he told the truth, that he had integrity. And here he was, a day later, telling Johnson he had to go. And there is only one reason he is being made to go – because he has publicly demonstrated his complete lack of integrity. Zahawi fancies himself as the next prime minister. With this kind of judgement, he should be out of the running already.