Is it game over for Boris Johnson?

I don’t know about you, but it’s getting rather tiresome for me now. The Boris Johnson saga, that is.

Did he knowingly mislead parliament about rule-breaking lockdown parties in Downing Street? Very probably. Though perhaps not certainly, if one places any credence in his argument that nobody in authority definitively told him boozy post-work gatherings in Downing Street offices were prohibited. So on that front everything depends on what standard of proof of deliberate deceit the privileges committee decides to work to.

If it throws the book at him, will he survive any recall petition or by-election in Uxbridge and South Ruislip, or indeed hold the seat at the general election? I’m guessing yes. As someone with extended family living out that way, I’m always struck by the residual sense of affection felt for him by many voters there.