Yes. There's a kind of background music - maybe not even the whole music, but a recurring motif - that he is the legitimate representative of the people, whereas the actual governing politicians are placeholders, there on sufferance & liable to be jettisoned at any minute. Some of it is to do with >
the way the Tories really did keep jettisoning their leaders every five minutes, but a lot of it is to do with the fact that populism worms its way into everyone's psyche, & that includes clever commentators based in Westminster.
This particular species of the populism worm was introduced by Brexit.