The Plot, the Political Assassination of Boris Johnson

There was something almost surreal about the way yesterday unfolded. Tim Davy stands up, gives an interview at lunchtime and says that the BBC is halting its investigation into the as-yet unnamed presenter while the Metropolitan Police does its work. And then somewhere else in the BBC, the news division, was actually stepping up its investigation into him. So you have this very odd position, which is the sort of sun journalist and the BBC journalist, weirdly working, competing, but working in the same circle together. You have the organisation, the corporation, if you like, on a different setting. We want to have Chinese walls between the editorial side and the management side. But there is something a