There is an incredible amount of hysteria and noise being generated by the conflict between Boris Johnson and his former chief aide, Dominic Cummings. So maybe it is useful for me to share what I know about three big claims:
1) The charge that Prime Minister did say he would rather see ‘bodies pile high in their thousands’ than order a third lockdown (as reported in the Daily Mail); 2) The cabinet secretary Simon Case still believes Cummings may be the ‘Chatty Rat’ who leaked details about November’s lockdown; 3) the refurbishment of the Prime Minister’s flat was originally to be funded by Tory party donors, even though on Friday the Prime Minister said he had been paying for it.
The ‘chatty rat’ who contacted me was not Cummings
To be clear, Downing Street has issued a straight denial that the Prime Minister ranted in that extreme way about how there would never be a third lockdown (which, of course, there has been).
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