Cummings thread 1) Quite a few Conservative MPs, including some very senior ones, can't stand the sight or sound of him - and in general terms would like him out.

Cummings thread 2) The Tory MP WhatsApp groups - on which subject see here - https://bit.ly/36rdyfC  - are very quiet indeed today so far: no mass movement for Cummings to go.

Cummings thread 3) Senior Tory MPs who might be expected to call for Cummings to go a) are saying nothing publicly and b) in some cases defending him - arguing that in legal terms Cummings has a defence, and that in moral terms he does too.

Cummings thread 4) Whether you agree with that take or mot, the political consequence is clear: unless tomorrow's papers turn up something new, or more emerges in the next few days, Number Ten is well placed to ride today's storm out.

Cummings thread 5) Which raises the next question: will the story cut through to voters as a one-law-for-them-another-law-for-us ERM-type poll-moving moment?

Cummings thread 6) And, next: what are the legal and moral rights and wrongs in ant event...?

Cummings thread 7) Which @ConHome will turn to tomorrow morning.