Caption: It started with the Telegraph diary, but just more and more and more.

Is that "Lawton dangles by a thread"? Yeah! Dangles by a thread!

It's OK. We've got... Lawton dangles by a thread? We've got. It's OK. Do keep it.

Yeah. No, just leave it there. Thank you, Terri. There's a lot of them, isn't there?

Seriously, the PM likes you personally.

I like you personally, and we've absolutely no desire to get rid of you. I just want you to know that.

None of this negative stuff is coming from us.

Oh, no, mate. That...

..makes a big difference. Makes me feel a lot more secure. Does it?

Well, it's difficult.

What's difficult? Just endless headlines, day after day.

It's chipping away at confidence. Absolutely. The thing is... we're starting to look weak.

Everybody's saying, "When's he gonna go. When's he gonna go?"