Thread by @paulwaugh

After another extraordinary week in politics, sit back and read @theipaper Weekend.
Stuffed with exclusive intel, long reads + analysis from our politics team @HugoGye @singharj @RichardVaughan1 @janemerrick23 and @ChaplainChloe
Superb value for just £1.20
Here’s a taste..🧵

Asked on a scale of one to ten how much Munira Mirza resignation mattered, one Cabinet minister tells us: “eight”
inews.co.uk/news/politics/…

One MP reveals how Johnson trying to woo rebels. “He has had them all in for chats, including all the pork-pie plotters,” “He has been offering the older guard Tory peerages, knighthoods, anything to keep them onside.”

One MP says only a few party members locally stand by the PM. “But people in business and everything..it’s getting a bit embarrassing I think.”
“We were promised at the ‘22 there would be no more party revelations and any more would be very minor...We’ll see if that’s true.”

One Tory insider says new No10 policy chief (and ex Sky executive) Andrew Griffith “knows nothing about Whitehall policy making. It’s a fallacy to think corporate experience equips you for the civil service”.

Here’s @HugoGye and @singharj on the bunker mentality in No.10
One backbencher said: “The Chief Whip has literally turned off his phone, it’s proper End of Days stuff.”

inews.co.uk/news/politics/…

Includes how @RishiSunak is making contact with MPs.
One 2019-er said: “He’s quite overtly going up to colleagues randomly and saying, ‘How are you today?’, that sort of thing. It’s not subtle and people are saying he’s not briefed at all about the people he is speaking to.”

And @HugoGye spots the ‘snippy’ comment Sunak made in a Sun article about Partygate.

Plus my @theipaper Weekend column on why the hidden story of this week has been that NHS staff jabs U-turn - and how it shows Johnson’s chaos extends way beyond No.10.

Expect more from govt next week on the NHS, but will it be too late?

inews.co.uk/opinion/sajid-…