New Partygate video is one more headache for Rishi Sunak

As another scandal hits the Tory party, its MPs are even more gloomy about how PM can project the government as honest and professional

Eight months into Boris Johnson's leadership, he was faced with what many deemed was a challenge greater than the second world war, which his hero Winston Churchill presided over; the Covid pandemic had just begun.

While Johnson was criticised in March 2020 for being slow to enact lockdown measures to prevent deaths, after warnings from the World Health Organization, he managed to garner the public's sympathy as he himself battled the disease in intensive care.