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NEW: Cabinet ministers warn Boris Johnson that No10's management style and decision-making processes are “unsustainable” and “untenable”

💥some special advisers have sought counselling due to stress
💥others are talking about walking out

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One senior minister said Johnson must “rein in” Dominic Cummings after a series of high-profile bust-ups

— they claimed "half the cabinet” have found themselves unable to work with Cummings
— ministers openly discussing when the PM's top aide will leave

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Several SpAds have sought counselling and had conversations with Helen MacNamara's cabinet office ethics and propriety unit

— Officials now reporting back to senior civil servants amid concerns over behaviour at SpAd meetings

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Former special advisers call on Helen MacNamara to defend workplace rights: "[SpAds] have the right to work without being bullied or intimidated like any civil servant and the civil service leadership will have to act to make sure that is respected”

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💥SpAds fearing for their jobs are sending weekly "grassing up" emails to No10 about their ministers and colleagues who have been speaking to journalists

— compared by one former SpAd to “something done by the Soviet secret police”

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“Ministers who ask small questions of Number 10 or say they don’t agree with one word in a press release are seen as traitors. People fear that if you say the wrong thing you’ll end up like Saj and his spads"

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😬😬😬SpAds known to be close to certain ministers have been shuffled to other departments over fears they'd prioritise their minister over No10

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NEW: Have spoken to multiple special advisers who say they and their cabinet ministers will refuse to work with Andrew Sabisky

— they won’t attend meetings where he is present or respond to his emails
— they will tell Boris Johnson to overrule Dominic Cummings and sack Sabisky
Cabinet now in open revolt against No10 over Sabisky appointment

— one source: “Did nobody consider google? Jesus fucking Christ”
— another: “How fucking dumb is this ‘superforecaster’”
— another: “Interesting take on the people’s government”
Former government special adviser: “Hiring this imbecile is an insult to those who came before, which is a minor point I know, but jesus wept it makes me ashamed.”
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"Consequences."

Inside Number 10's war with the media on several fronts

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Big picture is that Boris Johnson ultimately backs what his senior team see as a culture war against elements of the British media establishment that they perceive have not only opposed their politics for the last three-and-a-half years, but for decades

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No10 entirely serious about licence fee reform

But also:
— backs Laurence Fox style assault on "woke" culture
— BBC comedy, liberal dramas, BBC Three
— Channel 4 News will no longer be allowed to “make a mockery of impartiality rules night after night”

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New: The Lobby has staged a walkout in protest at No10 attempting to remove journalists from left-of-centre publications from a Downing Street briefing
No10’s version of events

“Full briefing happened for all. Smaller selected briefing for specialist senior journalists (incl guardian) arranged. Uninvited Journalists barged in and demanded to be part of it. It was made clear - only those invited could stay. They chose to leave”
No10 claims this was just a briefing for “specialist” journalists — though those invited included Laura Kuenssberg and Robert Peston as well as other political journalists — who all joined the walkout in protest
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