Call it the phoney war. All that anyone in Westminster was really thinking about was what the prime minister knew about his former deputy chief whip Chris Pincher, and when he knew it.
Over the last few days the No 10 line has shifted from Boris Johnson not knowing anything about anything to not knowing anything about any specific allegations to not knowing anything about any specific serious allegations – a bit of casual groping was not so bad: after all even The Convict had form for that – to he might have known something but he’d get back to us when he’d worked out what it was he was supposed to know. The Thérèse Coffey defence. Lying has become so second nature inside Downing Street that no one ever thinks to admit the truth.
