Thinking more about the "who replaces Cummings" element - what if he's the only thing holding the ship together, and without him the crew under Captain Johnson become uncontrollable factions, battling each other for their own goals? The ERG's Libertarians vs (at a guess) Sunak etc? The government at the moment is both cruel and incompetent - the ultimate expression of the team that delivered an EU customs border within the UK. But maybe this is the high water mark for them, and that without Cummings they will just be paralysed.
Thinking more about the "who replaces Cummings" element - what if he's the only thing holding the ship together, and without him the crew under Captain Johnson become uncontrollable factions, battling each other for their own goals? The ERG's Libertarians vs (at a guess) Sunak etc? The government at the moment is both cruel and incompetent - the ultimate expression of the team that delivered an EU customs border within the UK. But maybe this is the high water mark for them, and that without Cummings they will just be paralysed.