Downing Street has announced an internal inquiry into the leak of private text messages between Boris Johnson and billionaire Sir James Dyson over the tax status of his employees.

No 10 had initially said there would not be a probe into how the exchange was made public, but a change of course was announced on Thursday as it said an internal inquiry will be led by the Cabinet Office.

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I am no Tory supporter, in this instance however I think Boris did the right thing.

We, at the time, needed ventilators.

Dyson switched 450 of his engineers onto the job, bought some parts to build and the NHS then decided they didn't want them.

Dyson lost £20 million on the project.

Being quick saves lives, following every rule in the book and we end up like the EU, slow off the mark.

If there was any illegal contracts, then yes, should be looked into.

In this instance I think we did the right thing.

Boris Johnson’s former adviser is said to be the chief suspect. He is described as “bitter” by Downing Street sources due to the Government’s “great progress” since his departure last winter, The Daily Telegraph claims.

Mr Cummings, 49, is suspected of leaking messages between Mr Johnson and the Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, it is said.

Their report suggests correspondence between Mr Johnson and businessman Sir James Dyson may also have been leaked by the former chief adviser.

Another insider told The Sun Mr Johnson is “deeply disappointed and saddened” that private texts were made public.

They are reported to have said: “The Prime Minister thinks Dominic Cummings is responsible for a series of damaging leaks about his personal communications.”

Dominic Cummings accused of leaking Boris Johnson's texts with Sir James Dyson

https://www.express.co.uk/news/polit...dyson-leak-ont



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Politics is a dirty game.

Almost as dirty as media reporting where you can make up any story you like and justify it with words like "is said to be"; "suggests"; claims" et. with zero mention that it was the reporters themselves who said, suggested and claimed.

Boris Johnson's former chief adviser Dominic Cummings has denied leaking text messages sent between the PM and businessman Sir James Dyson.

In a blog, he writes that he was "not directly or indirectly the source" of the leak - and questions the "competence" of the prime minister.

Asked whether he had blamed his former adviser for it, Mr Johnson said: "I don't think people give a monkey's, to be frank, about who is briefing what to who."

Mr Cummings writes on his blog: "I was not directly or indirectly a/the source for the BBC/Kuenssberg story on the PM/Dyson texts. I am happy to meet with the cabinet secretary and for him to search my phone for Dyson messages. I am happy for No 10 to publish every email I received and sent July 2019-November 2020 (with no exceptions other than, obviously, some national security/intelligence issues).

He also calls for an "urgent parliamentary inquiry into the government's conduct over the Covid crisis", adding that he thinks Mr Johnson has fallen "far below" the standards of "competence" the "country deserves". Mr Cummings promises to answer questions about "any" issues when he appears before a parliamentary committee on 26 May.

The PM's former chief aide - who was closer to Boris Johnson than anyone till he was forced out at the end of last year - has issued a statement that explicitly brands Johnson as "unethical" and implicitly calls him a liar. Cummings says he does not possess the relevant Dyson texts, so could not be the leaker, and that he can prove the PM knows both that he is not the chatty rat and that the finger of suspicion was pointed at another aide, Henry Newman.

He recalls the PM saying to him: "If Newman is confirmed as the leaker than I will have to fire him, and this will cause me very serious problems with Carrie [the PM's fiancée] as they're best friends...[pause] perhaps we could get the Cabinet Secretary to stop the lead enquiry."

Cummings says: "I told him that this was 'mad' and totally unethical, that he had ordered the inquiry himself and authorised the Cabinet Secretary to use more invasive methods than are usually applied to leak inquiries because of the seriousness of the leak.

"I told him that he could not possibly cancel an inquiry about a leak that affected millions of people, just because it might implicate his girlfriend's friends."

Cummings says: "The PM stopped speaking to me about this matter in 2020 as I told him I thought his plans to have donors secretly pay for the renovation were unethical, foolish, possibly illegal and almost certainly broke the rules on proper disclosure of political donations if conducted in the way he intended. I refused to help him organise these payments".

Cummings wants the whole matter of who is telling the truth examined "via an urgent Parliamentary inquiry into the government's conduct of the covid crisis which ought to take evidence from all key players under oath and have access to the documents".