There's something about the timings of many of these stories that has me suspicious of quite what is going on.
Johnson knows most of the country know fine that he is a liar, heck he even has the P45's to prove it but he is also very well aware that holding an eighty seat majority at Westminster the position of the Tory Party is not under any real threat to its hold on power.
We are currently some years away from the next general election and the enquiry into the Covid19 pandemic handling by Johnson's government will not even begin till next year so the chances are Johnson will make as much money, his PM wage and the like, whilst planning his post PM job for when he decides he's had enough. Knowing many Tory MPs in government will say and do whatever it takes to hold onto their jobs (much as Republican senators in the US support Trump in order to secure Trump supporters loyalty no matter what Trump says or does) so there is not a high chance of any Tory MP challenging Johnson.
I expect Johnson will decide either to quit UK politics and return to the land of his birth, perhaps to retake his US citizenship and make a run for President

or he'll take a taste of how the country is leaning before deciding if he'd stand a good chance of surviving any inquiry into Covid19 and being re-elected, if he feels he'd be re-elected he may well go for that. When Blair handed the keys to No10 to Brown he had recognised Labour were facing a real chance of defeat in the up coming general election and felt it better to get out as an undefeated PM as against one who had lost such an election, the difference between the two situations could be worth hundreds of thousands of pounds post UK politics for him.
By the time of the next general election both Johnson and Cummings know much of what we are talking about today and no doubt over coming weeks will be have been forgotten by whatever the news of the day is then, this is perhaps why we are hearing all this now and if it begins to look like it will not be forgotten in time for the election Johnson will be gone having taken that taste of the political weather I referred to earlier.
Cummings, I feel, has a strategy to be in a position to make a rapid return to Downing Street if he can get Gove into position as leader of the Tory Party, this is maybe why he has markedly less to say critical of Gove.
I could be wrong
