Yesterday I wrote here that the shenanigans of special advisers weren’t very important and shouldn’t get so much attention. And then Dominic Cummings resigned, and the world shifted on its axis, so what sort of idiot am I, eh?
It’s important that when journalists get things wrong, they say so. But this isn’t a mea culpa. I stand by my point about the importance of political advisers being overstated and over-reported. Dominic Cummings doesn’t really matter. Boris Johnson does.
There is talk in many papers and places this morning about the impact of Cummings’s departure from No. 10. Will it lead to a change in approach, a shift in policy focus from the centre? Will we see the re-emergence of the liberal Boris Johnson who was mayor of London and embraced open, cosmopolitan politics?
I am yet to hear any account of an actual policy choice at stake in the Cummings row: his departure is a sandwich without a filling
This is the ‘Let
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