Jack Blanchard, Politico daily email:
A GOOD DAY TO BURY BAD NEWS: The Sun reports that Boris Johnson has chosen — brace yourself — Chris Grayling to be installed as chairman of the Commons intelligence and security committee, the powerful backbench body which oversees the U.K.’s security services. It’s quite the return for a man viewed by more than a few seasoned Westminster observers as the most hapless minister of his generation, and will infuriate a long line of Tory backbenchers who believe — perhaps not unreasonably — that they could do a better job. Johnson however is famed for not wanting to upset his friends, and this appears to be a classic “look after your mates” consolation prize for a Vote Leave colleague he felt obliged to dismiss from Cabinet last summer.
Gosh, when I read that I thought for a moment that it must be April 1st.
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