Um. Did anyone know that the cabinet office has ‘non-exec directors’? 4 new ones, all friends of Cummings: 1) ex commissioner of force that dropped investigation into Vote Leave. 2) Chair of Vote Leave. 3) Digital director of Vote Leave 4) someone else https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/boris-s-whitehall-overhaul-has-just-become-even-more-ambitious

So to recap, new ‘non-executive director’ of Cabinet Office was chair of organisation found to have committed electoral fraud. And Cabinet Office which last time I checked was part of the Civil Service now has political appointees. Is anyone keeping track of this stuff?

STOP PRESS! The 4th non-exec director appointed to cabinet office? The one who isn’t the ex-chair of Vote Leave, the ex-digital director of Vote Leave, or the ex-head of the police force that dropped its investigation into Vote Leave? Turns out she’s Michael Gove’s ex-girlfriend