The alleged ban on Boris Johnson taking top secret documents into his Downing Street flat cannot be dismissed lightly.
The charge comes from the former friend who worked most closely with him.
Ex-chief aide Dominic Cummings boasting of, instead of hiding, his burning desire to bring down an old collaborator now curiously gives his allegations added credibility.
And the “frat house culture”, said to have prompted senior mandarins to worry visitors could read sensitive reports left lying around, would be in keeping with Johnson’s incompetent, disorganised style of Government.
Parties during lockdowns are only the worrying tip of a frightening iceberg if the PM is even a fraction as warped, careless, reckless and conceited as Cummings portrays.
To possess an ego isn’t a crime.
Yet when that is what primarily motivates Johnson, the cost for the nation of his premiership is growing increasingly dangerous.
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Dragged down
When millions of people in our most deprived towns will be hit hardest by soaring fuel bills and tax increases, the Government is levelling down, not up.
Beware of Tory propagandists Michael Gove and Boris Johnson supposedly bearing gifts.
They have a miserable track record of short-changing the poorest, misleading everybody, cutting vital public services and announcing the same spending time after time.
Too many communities weren’t so much as left behind as kept behind by Tory austerity.
And let’s not forget the £12billion NI rises in April will take out far more in many local economies than even invented Conservative figures will pretend to put back in.
Visitors’ joy
Care homes reopen fully to visitors in England today, so more people can once again see their loved ones.
After so much anguish, ending the isolation of elderly, vulnerable and disabled family and friends is a moment for cautious joy.
