The crisis engulfing Boris Johnson’s government has deepened with four top aides quitting, one of them unleashing a devastating attack on his judgment.

The U.K. prime minister’s chief of staff, Dan Rosenfield, and his principal private secretary, Martin Reynolds both resigned on Thursday, as did his director of communications, Jack Doyle.

But perhaps the most damaging was the exit of Munira Mirza, one of his longest-standing allies, who quit as head of the policy unit in protest over a "scurrilous” remark Johnson made about opposition rival Keir Starmer.