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The Daily Telegraph parliamentary sketch writer is not representative of the Telegraph as a whole.
And that article allows the Telegraph to have it both ways. Boris supporters can dismiss it because “well he would say that wouldn’t he?” (imo Michael Deacon is pretty even-handed, for Torygraph readers = dangerous leftie). At the same time it does put a shot across the bows of the Tory party.In a previous sketch, that also got a lot of attention, Deacon compared Johnson v Starmer to Bertie Wooster up in front of a judge, the morning after stealing a policeman’s helmet on boat race night (a recurring motif in PG Wodehouse).
This is a part of the bigger problem we have where, instead of sacking him and his cabinet for lying, bungling, general gross incompetence, we turn Boris into this loveable twit, whom we indulge and work-around-his-mess because -hehe- Boris is a madlad, one of us, yeah?
Tl:dr - Tory newspaper farts, world turns.
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But Johnson has always enjoyed the support of the Telegraph, well in excess of all the other Tory rags I think.
I couldn't read that whole article due to paywall, but it's says a lot that Starmer apparently has the image that they're able to run such a headline. Had Corbyn (or Milliband probably) been asking the exact same questions I think it's unlikely that they would have done.