Even his own ministers, jostling for position as his successor, have begun to undermine him.
From warlords on the country's fringes to ministers jockeying for position in Kabul, many leaders see American money and military clout as the ultimate source of power here.
Labour is heading for opposition unless cabinet ministers stop manoeuvring for position, the party's general election co-ordinator warned last night.
Corbyn's response to this crisis – the creation of a dedicated shadow Minister for Mental Health position – is practical and sensible.
Baroness Delyth Morgan will swap her role as students' minister for a position in the Department for Children, Schools and Families.
The argument that bigger parishes can do more — hire lay youth ministers, for instance, a position that exists now at only one parish in the entire diocese — doesn't sway her, or the others who have joined the Council of Parishes, a new group formed to oppose the mergers.
Flexing John Prescott, the deputy prime minister, and Peter Mandelson, the minister without portfolio, were accused of jockeying for position during the prime minister's absence on holiday.
The highest political office he can possibly achieve is that of the chief minister, a position for which most candidates must be unquestionably trusted by the army and the two other mainstream political parties, the ruling Pakistan Muslim League and the Pakistan People's Party.
The U.K. prime minister stepped down, and his possible replacements are jostling for position.
I am told that Michael Gove and Philip Hammond were rebuked by the prime minister for undermining his position by saying in public that they would vote to quit the EU if a referendum were held now.
