For the Tory party, Boris Johnson is a blip not a crisis | Nesrine Malik

Do not mistake changing polls and rising public anger with anything that will bring meaningful change to Britain

Any minute now, no? Surely this is it for Boris Johnson. The party is over. He has managed to get away with it before, but, as someone yelled with relish at prime minister's questions last week: Not this time!"

The polls do indeed look bad for the first time in a long while, and a more troubling portent for the prime minister is how the r" word - resignation - has become thrown about not as a far-fetched demand but as a real possibility.

Nesrine Malik is a Guardian columnist