David, Helen and Chris Brooke have one more go at making sense of the tangled web that is British politics. Can Johnson really survive, and even if he does, can his brand ever recover? Is this a scandal, a crisis, or something else entirely? Does history offer any guide to what comes next? And what might be the really big lessons from the last two years of Covid-dominated politics?

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