Well we'll see how this pans out, and I guess it's all riding on Sue Gray's report. If she concludes Boris lied to Parliament I think he's toast, but you never know!
I'm going to nail my colours to the mast. I hope he survives.
With Europe on the brink of war, I think that the last thing we need right now is the instability and uncertainty of a leadership contest. If we end up with a new PM he/she will reshuffle the cabinet and it will effectively be a new government at the worst possible time.
Boris is a tit, but from time to time he has shown flair and imagination, like taking the vaccine programme away from the Department of Health/NHS and setting up the Vaccine Taskforce.
I can't imagine any of the possible replacements doing something like that and we shouldn't forget that Sir Starmer criticised the government for not teaming up with the EU, not only on vaccines but ventilators at the beginning of the pandemic as well.
The AUKUS submarine deal was another masterstroke that I really can't see any other past or potential PM doing. I imagine senior civil servants in the MOD and Foreign Office had serious cases of the vapours when they found out, and I would think that characters like Sir Starmer or Theresa May would have wanted to run it past Brussels and Paris before signing up. Jeremy Corbyn?
Christ!!
Boris needs a strong right hand man to keep him on track (Lord Frost?) and we need to see more of Boris at his best over the next couple of years if he stands a chance of winning the next GE!