Then his own brother resigned from the cabinet. And then he forced 40 junior police officers to stand in full sun behind him for so long that one of them fainted on live TV and the chief constable lodged a formal complaint.
That was considered a big deal at the time. Then, about six months later, he nearly died, came back to work, and announced he’d had a baby. (It was, in fact, an even bigger week than was realised at the time, for while he’d been in intensive care, Dominic Cummings had been in Barnard Castle.)
So how does this one compare? You wake up in Las Vegas to find out the police are investigating you, yet again – this time for yet more alleged illegal parties while you were prime minister, and another one at Chequers, so it’s definitely not just the No 10 press office getting a bit rowdy.
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