By the sounds of some of the reporting, Johnson's condition could be very serious. I for one hope he recovers: I have said before I would rather have Boris than Raab any time.

But if the worst comes to it, such is the oddness of our political system that neither the person those who voted Tory voters voted for (Boris) or against (Corbyn) would be in place, yet we have the best part of five years before the next election. Moreover in the leadership election, Raab was eliminated in the second ballot, before, say, Rory Stewart. So we don't even seem to have the person in charge the Tory MPs favoured (Agreed, we have a very different set of MPs now to those who voted at the time.)