"I think it’s extraordinary that no one has cottoned on to this but his greatest problem is his own domestic arrangements,” Johnson's biographer Tom Bower told the press. "He let out his home in Oxfordshire because he thought he wouldn't need it for many years to come and he doesn't have a house in London. Carrie has a flat in Camberwell but it's not big enough for four people, two of whom are small children".
"Psychologically, the threat of homelessness, not having all the flunkies, not having power, not having chequers and not having authority is going to hit him very badly".
"He will be shameless as an ex-PM,”, Coulson wrote in the Times. "He understands – just as his idol Churchill did – that controlling the narrative of your failures as well as your successes is the absolute key to life beyond No 10".