It was, by all calculations, a bad day for the Conservative party, but the worst may be yet to come for Boris Johnson.

On the latest episode of Chopper’s Politics, The Telegraph’s weekly political podcast, associate editor Christopher Hope is joined by his Telegraph colleagues Camilla Tominey and Gordon Rayner to take you inside the scant 12-page ‘Partygate’ report written by civil servant Sue Gray.

Has the Prime Minister weathered the worst of the storm? Well, no, according to Camilla Tominey. “I think it’s going to get even more difficult,” she tells listeners. Listen to the show using the audio player above to find out why.

Rayner has a similar prognosis. “I think we saw a Prime Minister who probably realises that his time may be almost up. We saw a party who didn’t seem to want him to be their leader anymore, by and large. But we also saw a Prime Minister who never quite believes that his luck is going to run out and probably always thinks that something will turn up.”

So can Boris Johnson recover? How will ambitious backbench Tories leverage a floundering PM? And what will be the impact of a rocky global landscape, including simmering tensions in Ukraine? 

Listen to Chopper’s Politics, The Telegraph’s weekly political podcast, using the audio player at the top of this article or on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or your favourite podcast app.