Let us hope the next Prime Minister will abandon Boris's Net Zero zealotry and instead adopt a more balanced policy, mindful of the limits of models and the fact that Britain only emits 1% of the world's CO2.
Boris Johnson will resign today after Nadhim Zahawi told him to go and another eight ministers quit demanding he accepts reality. Will history now repeat and the Tories install a new, dull, election-losing John Major?
Boris is the most gifted politician of his generation and won an 80-seat majority. Why didn't Prince Hal become Henry V? Instead of taking destiny in his hands he pinched its bottom, then denied it.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Sajid Javid have both quit the Government this evening, saying we "cannot continue like this", bringing Boris Johnson's premiership to the brink of implosion.
Senior Whitehall civil servants are up in arms because Boris has rowed back on a commitment to bribe farmers to grow wildflowers instead of crops. Doesn't he care about the future of the planet?
Ethical scepticism refuses to let the perpetrator of a gross injustice off the hook and evade accountability just because the alternatives may be worse. Ethical sceptics should have no confidence in Boris Johnson.
The talking points in this week's episode of London Calling are Boris's survival prospects, Prince William's attempt to channel Greta Thunberg and the sheer, unadulterated joy of Top Gun Maverick.
It's clear from the confidence vote that the only way Boris can survive is to tack to the right. So cut taxes, scrap the NI protocol, ditch 'Net Zero, lean in to the culture war and star fracking.
For lockdown sceptic Tory MPs wondering whether to back Boris, there's a powerful two word argument: Jeremy Hunt. The favourite to succeed the PM was one of the most zealous lockdown enthusiasts in the House of Commons.
Boris Johnson faces a vote of no confidence among his own MPs today after the threshold for triggering a Tory confidence vote was hit following the lockdown Partygate scandal and its aftermath.
