Gray report paints a damning portrait of Boris Johnson

Analysis: Guided between meetings and stumbling across parties, PM projects meekness and irrelevance

• Sue Gray report published - live updates

Perhaps the most accidentally telling line of Boris Johnson's apology-meets-explanation in response to the Sue Gray report came when he outlined recent personnel moves inside Downing Street: The entire senior management has changed."

Aside, of course, from the man at the very top. And while Johnson insisted he took full responsibility for everything that took place on my watch", the Gray report eloquently chronicled what has been a refrain of Johnson's political career - the sense of a man officially in charge, but not necessarily in control.