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    No one guilty at the BBC

    Nov 26, 2020 3 minutes

    very quickly. One moment it was a done deal — on the front page of , no less — that Lee Cain was going to become the prime minister’s chief of staff. The next moment, the former No 10 director of communications was seeking new opportunities. Another example of Dominic Cummings’s tendency to overbrief and underdeliver was the recent banner headline that the former and editor, Lord Moore, was going to become chairman of the BBC. Happily, Moore didn’t lose out by being touted in this

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