Spies and hacks.

By appointing Sedwill, who already juggles additional roles as head of the civil service and national security adviser, to a fourth job as lockdown-easing chief telephone salesman, Johnson is putting a lot of eggs in one Whitehall basket. The marginalisation of "Damaged Dom" Cummings continues. Fretting he'll never stand atop a public plinth now his popularity is waning across swathes of the country, jittery Johnson is keen to resume face-to-face meetings with rebellious Tory MPs. [Extracted from the article]

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