Glum and distracted, Boris Johnson tries to bounce back from boos

Analysis: Having been in denial for weeks, the Tory leader finally understands how how much trouble he is in

Boris Johnson's glum face at the Queen's jubilee pageant on Sunday said it all. With his face at times in his hands, he did not appear to be fully concentrating on the parade.

Just hours earlier, Sir Graham Brady, the chair of the 1922 Committee, had rung the prime minister to tell him that the threshold of more than 54 letters expressing lost confidence in him had been reached.