The ‘chatty rat’ and the lockdown leak: all you need to know
The political fallout from Dominic Cummings’ latest incendiary blog post, which has been called a “nuclear dom” in Westminster, caused some immediate tremors and is likely lead to aftershocks for weeks to come.
Months after being turfed out of Downing Street, Boris Johnson’s once most senior adviser and trusted ally has turned on him in a blame game over leaks.
The final straw seems to have been a text exchange between the prime minister and the entrepreneur James Dyson, in which the prime minister promised to “fix” a tax issue. The, nicknamed the search for the “chatty rat”.
