Usually when everybody calls for a minister to go, there is a backdrop of scandal or misjudgement over a particular issue. With Chris Grayling it is not one thing but many; an accumulation of disaster and detachment in two Departments, Justice and Transport. In each problems, unresolved, pile up under Grayling’s leadership. So in a proper government in normal times he would have to be shuffled out.
But we are not in normal times. The government is weaker, more divided and more unable to find its way than any British government in modern history. Changing a hapless minister will make little difference. The problem, as everyone can see, is the government itself and sooner or later it, all of it, has to go.