BBC Laura's excuse about sending out briefing notes to Johnson by mistake is risible. "The dog ate my homework " is now "I sent my homework to the dog". Or perhaps "I sent my homework to Big Dog".

I think the term 'In cahoots' is what one would use in this situation. I am not a native speaker so.... This is awful and she needs to be sacked, such flagrant abuse of position is not tenable for a reporter/journalist of what should be an independent organisation. Innit?

Did she leave it under the pillow?

What the absolute heck is the BBC doing commissioning an interview with a man who lied to Parliament, misled the House, was forced to resign because the majority of his government resigned due to his lies over a deputy whip, and was banned from the estate for 10 weeks. Where does 'disrepute' begin?

Oh? I'd only heard this in the abstract i.e. journalist gave notes to a minister. Assumed it was another Starmer smeer

That's a new variation on a theme.