
News cycles are like cats – you can feed and generally treat them like kings, but they are never something you truly own. Still, on Monday afternoon when Rishi Sunak revealed the Windsor Framework reforming the Northern Ireland Protocol, he might have hoped to earn a full week of positive stories about Tory unity and getting Brexit done. It wasn’t to be.
Tuesday and Wednesday were dominated by leaks of Matt Hancock’s WhatsApp messages. Thursday saw Keir Starmer hire Sue Gray as his chief of staff. And today, the Commons Privileges Committee published an update on its investigation into whether Boris Johnson misled the House over his comments relating to partygate.