With Hannibal Johnson safe in his job for now, the Tory party can carry on devouring itself | Marina Hyde

The prime minister has survived the vote of no-confidence. And now we are all Clarice, forced to watch what’s next, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

The prime minister has survived the vote of no-confidence. And now we are all Clarice, forced to watch what’s next‘This will be Boris Johnson’s summer.’Last modified on Tue 7 Jun 2022 19.51 BST. Last night’s unsuccessful leaderplasty leaves the government hideously disfigured but staggering on; and the prime minister the subject of headlines like “let me get on with the job”.

This morning, Johnson apparently told his cabinet “this is a government that delivers on what people in this country care about most”, which feels bold, considering that a poll yesterdaywanted him to sod off to a long, long Sartrean afterlife on the Hannibal lecture circuit. Johnson’s mission-aborting government is arguably the UK’s worst delivery service, making even Yodel and Hermes look as if they go the extra mile to serve. “We tried to deliver even one half-arsed policy but you were out.

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