Correspondent in London
Barring a dramatic change, Boris Johnson should be safe for some time, Parliament going on vacation for ten days.
The past six weeks have been trying, leaving him in his post but seriously affected by the never-ending 'Partygate' scandal.
With a political future still far from clear.
To save his mandate, Johnson is on the counter-attack in all directions, with changes of heads and measures to appease the hard core of the Conservative Party.
Attacks on the opposition, too, but clumsily aggressive.
The accusation against Labor leader Keir Starmer of failing to prosecute a pedophile when he was a prosecutor has thus sown consternation among the Tories.
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