At one time (pre internet) politicians, particularly the cabinet were remote figures whom we trusted to get on and run the country. Back then we would not have been able to follow their day-to-day indiscretions except for those serious issues like the Profumo affair. Now everything is open to the world because of the mobile phone and the WWW.
Unfortunately those in high office do not seem to have the wit to understand that times have changed and that ordinary voters generally have higher moral standards than those at the top. Becoming a minister seems to appeal mainly to those who consider power & wealth to be beyond the reach of common law (this applies to top civil servants too), we only have to look at their attitude to the Afghan evacuation to see this. Fortunately the military hauled most of their coals out of that particular fire, but until those who would control us grow up and realise that governance is a serious job this country will continue to stagger along the path to failure.
Boris is an oaf, a clown who won our support on the back of a vote for the 'least worse' and has not grown into the job. Without the test of Covid, he probably would have served adequately and got yet another term when we next decide, but the pandemic has laid bare his inability to grasp that his blunders are loosing him support at a prodigious rate. OK, other than the women his pool of talent is pretty shallow, but he should realise that as long as he panders to people like Raab his store of goodwill with voters will continue to ebb away. I would wager that if Patel or Truss got into No 10 Raab would be sitting on the back benches before his feet could touch the ground. Last years Christmas parties are an insignificant irritation, but they should have known they were giving the real opposition (the BBC) a flame to fan into a conflagration, a wild fire that Boris will be unable to stamp out.
Mike.X