Boris Johnson quotes ‘Lion King’ to buck up Downing Street staff rocked by Partygate scandal

Nikki da Costa, a former legislative affairs director at Downing Street, suggested that rebuilding the team around Johnson would not be easy. The operation at Number 10 is “demoralized, already quite dysfunctional, with remaining good people neutered by the hierarchical, often ego driven, culture that has developed,” she wrote on Twitter. “They can’t just bounce back, and they are also dealing with this and sudden loss of colleagues.”