It’s precisely a fortnight since Rishi Sunak turned prime minister with a promise to place integrity on the coronary heart of his administration.
Certainly one of his first strikes was to offer a job again on the cupboard desk to Sir Gavin Williamson, the previous training secretary who had used his expertise as chief whip to marshal MPs in assist of Mr Sunak’s management bid.
Since then, a string of allegations have emerged – about abusive textual content messages and, at present, a declare that he advised an official on the Ministry of Defence to “slit your throat”. He denies being a bully.
However tonight, solely on this programme, a former MP who was his deputy when he was chief whip makes a sequence of extraordinary claims about his conduct.