It’s all a bit of a soap opera over at No. 10. Tears, screams, tantrums, mess everywhere — and that’s just Boris’s children Wilf and Romy. The papers are full of talk of ‘the good king with bad advisers’ as various sources speculate that one or more of the whips’ office, special adviser team and the ministerial ranks could all be overhauled. Bertolt Brecht suggested dissolving the people and electing another – it appears Boris wants to do the same to the team he hand-picked.
But while Johnson’s government has been accused of having a ‘women problem,’ it’s not just the men getting involved in the briefing wars. For tensions within the Downing Street sisterhood spilled over on Wednesday when Carrie Johnson’s close friend Nimco Ali publicly reprimanded one Tory rising star on Twitter:
The tweet was sparked by allegations that Davison, the MP for Bishop Auckland, instigated the ‘pork pie plot’
‘I honestly can’t believe the audacity of Dehenna Davison.
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