as salma was saying, he could resign. if found he did lie to parliament, the convention is he would have to go. i think it would be increasingly untenable for him to remain. there s also the option that he is booted out by his party if the threshold of these no confidence letters is reached. that would be about 54 of his own mps writing letters to the 1922 committee of rank and file members of the conservative party. now, that looks more and more plausible as the day goes on. when i was speaking to you last week, i was speaking to mps and they felt it was unlikely they would reach that threshold until may. that s when there are local elections in the united kingdom. that would give a crystal pwhraoer bellwether whether or not boris johnson could continue. now when i m speaking to mps, they say, no, it will be sooner than that. the country has no say because