It would not take much to get such letters from Johnson and Sunak fans. But regardless of that the financial indices are all dreadful and other Conservative MPs may well have written letters or be about to do so.

Another period of 6 or more weeks without someone properly in charge would make a bad situation even worse. We have had very little in terms of a government since the forced resignation of Johnson on 7th July. Parliament is next due to be at work on October 17th. Within a fortnight of that there could be another leadership election firstly by the parliamentary party and then the final two again touring the UK doing hustings for 5 weeks.

So we would be going from there being no adults in charge to there being nobody in charge for at least another 6 weeks from the beginning of November. The Christmas Holiday of parliament is from 20th December to 6th January.