The most spineless PM in living memory?

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Why does the Cummings story matter? And what does it obscure? The real story is the huge transfer of government assets to private companies that he is overseeing under cover of a pandemic while restructuring the Cabinet Office into his & @michaelgove's private fiefdom
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— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) May 23, 2020

Interesting twitter thread.

Is this another conspiracy theory? "huge transfer of government assets to private companies" Shirley someone might spot that?

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Is this another conspiracy theory? "huge transfer of government assets to private companies" Shirley someone might spot that?

Carole Cadwalladr was also accused of being a conspiracy theorist on the Cambridge Analytica story, so she is probably used to being dismissed as such.

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Carole Cadwalladr was also accused of being a conspiracy theorist on the Cambridge Analytica story, so she is probably used to being dismissed as such.

Even so, huge transfer of government assets is a bit heavy don't you think? What assets would they be FFS?

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Even so, huge transfer of government assets is a bit heavy don't you think? What assets would they be FFS?

Not really. An asset could be anything from a contract to supply a service to an actual body like the NHS. You're probably thinking towards the "too heavy" part of the spectrum, whereas I think it's likely to be the smaller end of the spectrum.