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Boris Johnson nearly swept out during his last holiday in Scotland, The Times has been told

He went paddleboarding/canoeing and got into trouble

Protection officers had to swim out and drag him back to safety

He’s not returning to Scotland for his holiday this year
Boris Johnson said to be desperate to go abroad for holiday but has been warned it would be a PR disaster

Source tells @matt_dathan 'It would not be good look for prime minister if he was abroad while thousands were stuck in hotel quarantine after we put Mexico on the red list'
Johnson will not be going back to Scotland for his summer holiday after last year's catastrophe

One source said he told friends: 'Over my dead body'

He's expected to staycation in the South West
Another scoop from @matt_dathan - Liz Truss is currently on holiday in Barbados

She's the only Cabinet minister that we're aware of who has braved a foreign holiday this year

'She kept that quiet,' one friend said
Here’s our story on how Boris Johnson nearly got swept out to sea:

thetimes.co.uk/article/ef38aa…

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Times read:

* Ministers confident worst of pandemic over

* Autumn fears - end of furlough, £20 UC uplift, spiralling energy bills, spectre of inflation & NI rise

* Johnson ‘phlegmatic'. 'If you're going to do difficult stuff this is when you do it'

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Cab minister: 'We're almost living with it now, we're getting back to business... We should be confident'

Whitehall source: 'Nobody wants a George Bush 'mission accomplished’ moment. Some of us have seen this movie before'

Govt scientists think there will be no more lockdowns
Some in Government are pressing Rishi Sunak to hold his Budget on October 27

They worry that if he waits until next year Boris Johnson will make a series of unfunded spending pledges ahead of COP26

‘A Budget would lock him in. It would provide the guardrails’
Read 5 tweets
28 May
Boris Johnson learned that a Tory donor had funded the refurbishment of the Number 11 flat from media reports in late February, it is claimed

Lord Geidt says Boris Johnson was not aware David Brownlow had settled bill - said to be £200,000 - directly with the supplier on Oct 22
Lord Geidt mildly censures Johnson for not having a more ‘rigorous regard’ for how the flat would be funded. He says that this was unwise

He says that the prime minister ‘might reasonably expect’ to be curious about the arrangements
Matt Hancock committed a ‘technical’ breach of the ministerial code by failing to declare that a family firm -which he has a 20% stake in - had won an NHS contract

Lord Geidt says in mitigation that Hancock was unaware of contract and that he acted with ‘integrity throughout’
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23 Apr
BREAKING

Dominic Cummings accuses Henry Newman, senior No 10 aide, of being the 'chatty rat' who leaked details of the second lockdown

He says Simon Case said 'all evidence definitely leads to Henry Newman and others in that office'

dominiccummings.com
Cummings claims PM was 'very upset' by suggestion that Henry Newman could be behind leak

'If Newman is confirmed as the leaker then I will have to fire him, and this will cause me very serious problems with Carrie as they're best friends'

He says PM suggesting closing inquiry
Cummings says Simon Case, Cabinet Secretary, authorised the PM's official spokesman to tell the media that neither he nor Lee Cain, the director of comms, were the 'lockdown leakers'

He says PM himself confirmed *in writing* that neither he nor Cain were the leakers
Read 5 tweets
22 Apr
BREAKING:

Boris Johnson believes Dominic Cummings is behind a series of damaging leaks including disclosure of his text messages

No 10 source claims Cummings is 'engaged in systematic leaking' and 'bitter about what happened since he's left'
No 10 source on Cummings:

'Dominic is engaged in systematic leaking. We are very disappointed.

'The PM is saddened about what Dom is doing. It's undermining the govt and party.

'It might be that Dom feels bitter about what's happened since he's left - but it's a great shame'
Allies of Cummings deny he was behind Dyson text message leaks

Dyson's company said to have sent copies of texts to around 30 officials in Treasury & No 10

They're likely to be interviewed as part of leak inquiry

thetimes.co.uk/article/domini…
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22 Apr
How David Cameron lobbied Jon Cunliffe, Deputy Gov of the Bank of England, on behalf of Greensill:

On March 5 at 9.44, Cameron emailed Cunliffe directly:

'Do you have a moment for a quick word?'

Cunliffe at 10:55

'Of course, Can I get my office to arrange a call?'
At 5.27pm, Cameron emails James Benford, then private secretary to Governor, to arrange a meeting between Lex Greensill and officials at Bank of England

'GC is now world's largest provider of Supply Chain finance & has mandate with UK govt. We would be keen to step in and help'
James Benford, governer's private secretary, emails Cameroni back at 18.23 suggesting that 'Lex/ his team speak to Tom Mutton and Rhyr Phillips who respectively head up our Fintech Hub and our Sterling markets division'
Read 6 tweets
13 Apr
Breaking

Bill Crothers, govt's former head of procurement, became an adviser to Greensill Capital while he was a civil servant

The Cabinet Office gave him permission to take on a 'part-time advisory role' in Sept 2015

He didn't leave civil service until Nov '15
Here's Crothers himself on the extraordinary combination of roles as civil servant & adviser to Greensill

'It was seen as a way of me transitioning back into the private sector and was
supported by the Cabinet Office leadership

'The advisory role was not seen as contentious'
Crothers argued that he did not need to apply to Acoba to clear his position at Greensill because the role was 'captured under the conflicts of interest policy' for the Cabinet Office

So massive questions for the Cabinet Office about who authorised this extraordinary arrangement
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