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Because anonymous leaks are the way the UK government announce policy decisions...

• jen20 6y ago
  Indeed, it’s been known for a long time that when the BBC say “sources close to the Prime Minister” they mean “Dominic Cummings, who is too slippery to put anything on the record”.
  • tobylane 6y ago
    The Times, and BBC’s Kuenssberg have had recent success over these tidbits longer than Cummings has been with the PM. He was with Gove for a while.
    • toyg 6y ago
      Yeah, it's a tradition that stretches way back, to the Blair years at the very least - when "King SPAD" was Alastair Campbell, also known as the main inspiration for the character of Malcolm Tucker in "The Thick Of It".