Omicron will the straw that bring down Boris

[Hazelnutbean]

Half his backbenchers wouldn't even support Covid passes so any harsher measures would lead to a massive rebellion.... and he's so weakened now that I can't see how he survives that. He's already on his last chance.

If he does nothing, there's a reasonable chance that things will fall apart completely with health and social care during January, and he'll be blamed for creating the worst national crisis in decades.

The only thing that will get Boris out of this is if Omicron proves to overblown in terms of severity, and there's no big hospitalisation surge. That would probably also require some bold moves regarding reduction in isolation requirements to keep things moving.

I hope his concerns about his personal future don’t factor in to his decisions. From an personal POV, I’d imagine his best chance of survival is to do nothing and hope for the best, as this would play best to his voters and backbencher. Any other combination of action and outcome is likely to result in a further drop of popularity.

Might bring down Johnson (though I doubt it, the man is Teflon coated), but it's not a cause for celebration to be honest. Whoever takes his place will be another Tory after all. He's just the head of the beast, chop it off and another will grow in its place.

Maybe. Shame we’ll be dragged down with him. And other posters are right, there aren’t any good options for replacing him.

Nope

Who would want the premiership atm? Mid pandemic with Brexit still unresolved.

Boris will limp along, propped up by labour/cross party mps until the end of pandemic. Conservatives will support brexit stuff and labour will support covid restrictions so I dont think Parliament will hit the deadlock it did previously that forced the issue.

After the pandemic it will probably be a clean sweep of the board with both parties putting forward new leadership candidates

It might but Cons would probably back someone further right wrt to imposing less as that’s how their votes go. Labour gets restrictions through

@MarshaBradyo

It might but Cons would probably back someone further right wrt to imposing less as that’s how their votes go. Labour gets restrictions through

I think Labour will no longer support any further restrictions, unless they are actually far tougher (even bigger Tory revolt) and that Labour are included in the decision making process.

Something Boris will not agree too.

I hope one of the Tory rebels get in!
Labour seem to love restrictions and always back them.