Boris Johnson is planning a 'mass clearout' of Number 10 team and a series of "populist" announcements in the coming weeks — to save his own skin.

I am beyond disgusted at this utterly selfish and shameless man. He’s a national humiliation. https://t.co/JteMr7Fct0

— Dr Mike Galsworthy (@mikegalsworthy) January 16, 2022

“The danger for Johnson in looking for scapegoats is that he widens the circle of people willing to leak damaging stories against him. “The risk is there’s death by one thousand cuts,” said one former cabinet minister.https://t.co/S7zLaPL6aY

— Lionel Barber (@lionelbarber) January 16, 2022

Speaking of anger, a third MP says:

“It’s a fucking shitshow. We've spent £400bn on the economy. We've saved millions of jobs, saved businesses, we’ve got the best vaccination programme in the world.

“And fuck me, we’re 10 points behind. All because of a party.”

— Tony Diver (@Tony_Diver) January 16, 2022

God, read the first two paragraphs.He’ll risk killing refugees just to change the narrative to his advantage. He’ll go to war next – anything to cling onto power, like Trump, Putin, Orban. https://t.co/cGukQJjarP

— Jessica Simor QC (@JMPSimor) January 16, 2022

"Boris Johnson will put the military in charge of stemming the number of boats crossing the Channel as part of an attempt to save his premiership. Plans are also being drawn up to send migrants to Ghana and Rwanda for processing and resettlement"https://t.co/QQlSWxjgNw

— Hardeep Matharu (@Hardeep_Matharu) January 17, 2022

EXCL: Our @benglaze reveals that Boris Johnson attended yet another No 10 leaving bash in run-up to Christmas 2020 – that of defence adviser Steve Higham, now captain of Britain’s biggest warship. https://t.co/3GlZGkWYBj

— Pippa Crerar (@PippaCrerar) January 16, 2022

Oliver Dowden says "the PM is determined to address the culture at Downing Street".

Conservatives have been in charge of Downing Street for 12 years. Boris Johnson, personally, for thirty months.

As if "culture" at a workplace is some calamity that just happens.

— Alex Andreou (@sturdyAlex) January 16, 2022

Quite the column intro from Dominic Lawson https://t.co/lAcb4hEx9l pic.twitter.com/x44roJThL9

— Henry Zeffman (@hzeffman) January 16, 2022

It's insane how these people bang on about 'global Britain' and how colossal we're going to be on the world stage, while doing everything they can to trash the core institutions our international reputation is based on. pic.twitter.com/1kRj0Kdj5f

— Jonathan Coe (@jonathancoe) January 16, 2022

To attempt to save Johnson the plan is to freeze the BBC licence fee until 2027, the precursor to ending public service broadcasting.”Partygate”morphs into vandalising a loved and valued broadcasting culture. It is both wrong and a vote loser. A party that has lost its bearings.

— Will Hutton (@williamnhutton) January 16, 2022

Go anywhere around the world and ask people what they know and admire about the UK and they will tell you “oh yes the land of famed ethicist Boris Johnson and bushtucker trial specialist Nadine Dorries! The BBC? Never heard of it.” pic.twitter.com/2fCJVUWQzP

— Rory Cellan-Jones (@ruskin147) January 16, 2022

This licence fee announcement will be the last. The days of the elderly being threatened with prison sentences and bailiffs knocking on doors, are over.

Time now to discuss and debate new ways of funding, supporting and selling great British content. https://t.co/sXtK25q27H

— Nadine Dorries (@NadineDorries) January 16, 2022

Why do the Tories hate the NHS and the BBC? Because they are the two great standing contradictions of their absurd belief in the superiority of the private sector. pic.twitter.com/xU9GpwVSOj

— Dan Rebellato (@DanRebellato) January 16, 2022

Gary Neville – Boris Johnson is divisive & he loves division, so does Gove, so does Rees-Mogg & so does Patel, they thrive on fear, control & division, it's everything we're not. pic.twitter.com/OOjeHOzTGE

— Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 (@Haggis_UK) January 16, 2022

One day, we’ll have a PM who isn’t a monstrous arse. There won’t be knighthoods for failure. The Culture Secretary won’t be a vain moron. The Home Secretary won’t be a dullwitted bully. The govt won’t need to be under investigation and the country will start to be happy again.

— sarah murphy (@13sarahmurphy) January 16, 2022

If Garland had unlimited time, I’m sure he’d hold Trump accountable for seditious conspiracy and inciting and aiding a violent insurrection. But he doesn’t. The clock is ticking. The Nov. 2024 election is just a bit over 1,000 days from now. He must hurryhttps://t.co/39euZEvoZ5

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) January 15, 2022

DoJ is also investigating what role trumps DoJ played in the preparation for and response to the attack on the Capitol. 8/ pic.twitter.com/1Kn2Mc5IOX

— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) January 16, 2022

If Garland would indict Trump on the ten counts of obstruction of justice in the Mueller Report, I'd have more faith in him re: Trump Jan 6 indictments. But if he's willing to let Trump skate on obstruction of Mueller, why should we assume he won't let Trump skate on 1/6 crimes?

— Cheri Jacobus (@CheriJacobus) January 16, 2022

Jessica Levinson: Former President Trump just can't stop losing. And it's set to continue. https://t.co/acHL9WiRtv

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) January 16, 2022

Yesterday, I spoke w/ AZ Senate candidate Jim Lamon about the fake electoral certificate he signed that was then sent to the Archives. He defended signing it & doesn’t regret it.

He said Jan 6 Committee hasn’t reached out to him though he would cooperate if they asked – video TK pic.twitter.com/FbUTJFgXln

— Elizabeth Landers (@ElizLanders) January 16, 2022

Youngkin ran on letting people locally decide how their schools are run, and on week one he's strongarming a school district to try to kill its mask mandate.

This clown is everything we warned he would be. https://t.co/4wVUxJp5n3

— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) January 16, 2022

A lot of folks noting that Trump's performance tonight really emphasized how mentally ill he is.

I get it, but if that ever mattered to 70+ million voters in the first place, we wouldn't have had to suffer through the first failed peaceful transfer of power in U.S. history.

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) January 16, 2022

Acosta: It was the same old lines and same old lies at Donald Trump’s first rally of 2022. Spoiler: He’s still doing the sad Elvis bit, ranting and raving about the last election. Behold Grievance Groundhog Day take 439 pic.twitter.com/lYMmv7qGO1

— Acyn (@Acyn) January 16, 2022

It seems like such a long time ago—but it was only *two years ago today* that the first impeachment trial of Donald Trump, for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, began.

This was the “trial” in which 51 senators refused to allow subpoenas to call witnesses or documents. pic.twitter.com/lXJUwBrAMt

— David Priess (@DavidPriess) January 16, 2022