Carrie may be seeking to bring out his softer caring side, but Boris Johnson is still not above threats, bullying, and general playground behaviour, from his days on College Field, Eton.
His team's briefing of three newspapers about Dominic Cummings used leaking to fight leaking, and had an embargo of 2215 last night (though the hacks in receipt of a new front page couldn't resist teasing Tweets). That cut BBC Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg out of the loop - the BBC has not, of course, revealed its source for the text messages exchanged between Boris Johnson and Sir James Dyson. Ms Kuenssberg doesn't normally work Fridays.
Boris has never been a techie (remember how much assistance Jennifer Arcuri was able to give him) and has always been lazy. It's easy to imagine that he could just about copy and paste an exchange of messages to his What's App group of consiglieri as way of getting Dyson out of his in-tray. After all, he is First Lord of the Treasury...
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