The increasingly bloody feud between Theresa May’s political operation and David Cameron’s has claimed another victim. Nick Timothy, May’s long-serving special adviser, has been spectacularly kicked off the candidates’ list.
The precise reason for Timothy’s ejection from the list is in dispute – Paul Goodman has Timothy’s version of events on Conservative Home. But Timothy is not the first of May’s special advisers to run into trouble, Fiona Cunningham was forced to resign by Number 10 after— in a flagrant breach of the rules —Cabinet correspondence was published on the Home Office’s website.
Timothy, though, is not leaving the candidates list without a fight. He has written an explosive letter alleging that he was kicked off for refusing to break the special advisers’ code of conduct during the Rochester and Strood by-election. Although, I suspect that this Spectator Life piece on
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