‘He’s in real trouble now’: Tory MPs are viewing Boris Johnson as the problem

Analysis: It's not Downing Street, it's him, says a minister, amid fears the PM's strengths have become weaknesses

Asked on Friday whether he took personal responsibility for the disastrous North Shropshire byelection result, Boris Johnson suggested the problem was that everyone else was talking about the wrong issues. My job as prime minister is to get the focus on to the things that matter for all of us," he said.

Yet after weeks of self-inflicted crises and the drip, drip of stories about lockdown-busting parties at the heart of Downing Street, many of his MPs believe it is Johnson himself who is the real problem - and some are warning he is now on borrowed time.