Thread by @paulwaugh

Fake threats to ditch the ECHR risk leaving @BorisJohnson and @pritipatel looking both impotent and incompetent.

The downside of a tactic that's more bluff than tough.

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Meanwhile, the independent adviser on sleaze -
Lord Geidt - has QUIT

Partygate is back folks

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🚨If even an Establishment, bend-over-backwards-to-avoid-conflict figure like Geidt has had enough of the PM, something is seriously up.
💥That's not one but TWO sleazebusters who have now had enough of @BorisJohnson (Alex Allan quit over PM not taking his advice on Priti Patel).

.@johnmcdonnellMP really pressed Geidt yesterday on whether he'd threatened to resign.
After this ridiculously convoluted answer (below), Geidt finally admitted: “We have mentioned before in evidence that it is always on the agenda as an available remedy to a particular problem.”

Interesting question now is whether any minister will see this as the final straw and quit too.

Right Royal trouble for @BorisJohnson?
💥Geidt (priv sec to The Queen 2007-2017) quits
💥Prince Charles says Rwanda plan "appalling"
💥4am drunken No10 party on day of Philip funeral (did PM ever apologise personally to Her Maj?)

Simon Case (priv sec to William 2018-2020) next?

Wow. Former Cabinet Secretary Lord Turnbull tells @BBCNewsnight that @BorisJohnson "is not worthy of the office" of Prime Minister.

It's highly, highly unusual for a former Cabinet Secretary to say such a thing. Possibly sending a signal to MPs that civil service has had enough.
But some civil servants may fear such outspoken remarks (even by someone who has retired) imperils their cherished impartiality.