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Desperately looking around him to find someone to tell him the answer.
You nailed this - he really does do that doesn't he? Like if he looks around hard enough someone might turn up and rescue him from the self-inflicted hell he's living in.
Word from friends in Westminster - some of whom work with people who brief him - is he still has to nap in the afternoon post-Covid, is absolutely hating the job because he thought it would involve nice photo ops and it actually involves a pandemic that's killed a million people and is flat broke due to all his children and messy divorce(s).
"We need to be getting this virus done"
Just awful words. Desperately looking around him to find someone to tell him the answer.