Whodunnit – a Downing Street special

Posted at 10.10 am UK time

The idiocy of Downing Street’s gratuitous attack on Dominic Cummings is becoming clearer by the second.

Instead of letting sleeping dogs lie, and taking their lumps when Cummings next gave evidence to a Parliamentary Committee, they could not resist engaging in puerile and heedless palace intrigue.

And so the Sunday papers are packed with the sort of who-done-it speculation one might expect to find in an Agatha Christie novel. Was it Harry Newman, the Cabinet Office SPAD and best friend of the Prime Minister’s fiancé? Was it in fact Cummings, the deposed eminence grise with a grudge? Or was it a sleeper cell of Labour-supporting civil servants?

Can I therefore suggest the Murder on the Orient Express solution is the most likely: it was probably all of them.

Read more by Collingwood on ‘The Cummings Storm’ here.