Is there hope?

Matt Hancock has resigned.

I think it's a safe assumption that he had no intention of resigning yesterday: either he simply is so stupid that he did not understand the consequences of his actions (quite possible by all accounts), he simply did not care about the consequences of his actions, or both. Also:

No10 had stressed that it had been Mr Hancock's decision to go and that he had not been pushed out by the prime minister. [From above article]

So Johnson quite explicitly does not care: as far as he's concerned rules are for lesser people, if the flagrant disregard of the rules by him and his chums means some number of lesser people die, well, dying is what lesser people are for, isn't it? Like sheep, their only real purpose is to provide clothing and meat for the great Johnson.

So why did he quit then? Well, presumably, because a lot of tory MPs told him in no uncertain terms that he was going to do so.

So, perhaps, there is hope: the parliamentary tory party is not, yet, so compromised by the johnsonists that it will do whatever they tell it to do. The stalinistsjohnsonists do not, yet, have complete control of the party, and not all dissenters have yet been purged. There is still a narrow chance that democracy will prevail before the dark falls.