Peter Connell

2/2 Gove took copious notes at every cabinet meeting in shorthand. I’ve no idea why that was tolerated or allowed. However , details of cabinet conversations were always leaked straight to Steven Swinford at the Times before ministerial cars had even returned to their departments. Maz Siddiqi was Rishi’s hedge fund partner and close friend and is No2 on the News corp board, which owns the Times. He sat next to Rupert’s ear. Danny Finkestein, Times columnist, self declared friend of Rishi Sunak and occasionally inside No10 advising Rishi will probably very soon start writing about how Badenoch is the future. The same columns he wrote about Rishi, on repeat. The Times reporting was fervently pro Rishi. William Hague, Times columnist, helped Sunak to be selected for his seat in Richmond. People at the selection meeting say questions were planted in the audience. Money certainly helped with lavish entertaining and dining of members before the selection meetings and the heavy endorsement of Sunak by Hauge. The Times list goes on and so do the stories, such as who a particular Times journalist chooses to take city mini breaks with and who uses a certain country cottage for weekends. Sunlight is always the best disinfectant. Huge mistakes have been made in the past because MPs get on with their jobs and have no idea who the players are wielding the power behind the scenes. Their power depends upon MPs remaining in a state of ignorance as it is they who for 25 years have remained the constant in the party and carry the historical knowledge. They will use plausible deniability to spread the rebuttal to anything I say and will rely heavily on sexism. Dorries is in love with Johnson etc. which is total and utter bollocks. It is the party I have worked for for 35 year that I once loved. Seven months before Johnson was removed from office, he received this call from Dougie Smith just as a fickle poll produced by one of their associates showed that Sunaks personal poll rating was high. The same poll was used by some of their recruited MPs to persuade them to remove Johnson. In Johnson’s own words from The Plot; ‘I remember where I was when the call came; I was upstairs in the kitchen.’ (In No10 flat) ‘He said, you should go…stand down now and we may let you come back one day. If you don’t, I’m going to take you down and finish you off.’ *We may let you come back one day.* More to come…

1/2 To Conservative MPs and party members. The group of men who are running Badenochs campaign and have taken a perch in Robert Jenricks, depend heavily upon being helped by client journalists and in particular the @times columnists / journalists - the Spectator magazine and formerly Conservative Home where Dougie’s friend of 35 years, Paul Goodman was until recently, the editor. Cummings wife, Mary Wakefield works at the Spectator where Badenoch also once worked, along with the sister of Cleo Watson, who was the Gazelle to Cummings pit pony strutting up and down 10DS for the benefit of cameras - odd behaviour to say the least for staff - into No10 and who did Cummings bidding. Sunaks former best man and best friend, James Forsyth went straight from being political editor at the Spectator into No10. The magazine has written numerous articles with titles like ‘In Praise of Kemi Badenoch.’ See how this works? The candidate Dougie Smith, Gove, Mirza, Cummings, Dowden and associates have planned to put in place for a number of years is Badenoch. They always have a lead candidate and one in reserve. I believe a favourite tactic of deployment is to send out dirty dossiers to journalists / newspaper editors when it’s time to blow someone up. I’ve seen them with my own eyes. There is a reason why they now have people working on Jenrick’s team. Danny Kruger is playing the role of former MP Nick Boles on Boris Johnson’s ‘16 leadership bid team, when Gove stabbed Boris in the back. (Boles now works for Rachel Reeves). If the final two are Kemi and Jenrick, they will hope to have gathered enough information to a) adversely persuade him to fall in behind Kemi …and if he doesn’t, blow him up so that Kemi sails through. I doubt Jenrick is even aware of this. They are always in control. It’s a game with no end. An addiction. I believe they did this frequently to various ministers to prevent them from taking the shine from their own continued path to power…Sunak and ready in the wings, Badenoch. For a minister, topping the Conservative Home poll of ministers was the kiss of death and time to press the detonator. Raab, Wallis, Cleverley, Zahawi, Patel etc taken down or damaged just enough to take the wind out of their sails and be put in their place. They even did it to Sunak at the beginning with the green card, wife’s non dom stories one assumes, to keep him dependent upon their help. That information was held in propriety and ethics and the person in charge was Sue Gray. A close ally of Gove. Where Gove went, Gray went too. She is also the person Gove and his allies insisted write the party-gate report. (More on this another day). Oh, and always poor Matt Hancock. Journalists who benefited from leaks from inside No10also included Peston, Brand and Walters. Some of the information was passed to Paul Ovenden who runs Labour dark arts to be passed out to left wing journalists to cover the trail. It truly wasn’t carelessness that plunged the Conservative party into one crisis after another. Potential talent, such as Jenerick, quietly moved out of government and the limelight. Once Sunak was in power, they moved onto back benchers and those who were not Sunak / Badenoch sycophants Were taken out, one by one as we saw with numerous by elections. In terms of leaders, they blew up IDS, Cameron, May, and Johnson. New MPs may want to have a quiet word with IDS who heroically remained on the field of battle and survived to confirm this. Or, read the interview with IDS in The Plot. Gove was a former journalist at the Times and is known to have the ear of Rupert Murdoch. It is rumoured he is shortly taking over as Editor although that could just be speculation amongst journalists. Gove told IDS when he was leader back in 2002 that his job was to burn the party down. When IDS didn’t agree, they took him out.