All day people @BethRigby, @bbclaurak, @GaryGibbonBlog etc reported Javid quitting as a major upset; a #reshuffle gone horribly wrong. For hours, senior No.10 figures tried to make Javid reconsider. By #Newsnight @nicholaswatt decided it was a masterful plan brilliantly executed.
It is so tiresome watching the narrative mutate and bend to Downing Street’s will and eventually reported as irrefutable fact.
Watt’s reporting has been toxic for months now. We might as well have one of those North Korean newscasters reading what is handed to them with mad fervour. At least they don’t pretend to be journalists.
