Must confess to some surprise at how easy it is to expose the lies of a man as brilliant as, we are told, Cummings is.

It& #39;s almost enough to make you think that much of the media just wasn& #39;t doing its job from 2015 to 2019. After all, he was no more honest then.

Frankly, the hagiographies written about him by Britain& #39;s public school commentariat have always baffled me. Amorality - which our failing systems have just let slide - isn& #39;t quite the same thing as brilliance.

Anyway. He& #39;s played this perfectly imperfectly. I& #39;m now betting he will resign after having, by clinging on, caused immense damage to the Government.