It's all about creating noise: the one where Johnson dead-catted Sunak and sent the Conservative Party's reputation further down the proverbial toilet in the process

Last week in my piece on Suella Braverman, I wrote that conspiracy theories stem from, “a school of thought often attended by those who have given up on the constant struggle to appreciate and understand the difficulties of living in the real world.”

[I’ll be writing more on Braverman in my next piece - feel free to subscribe]

The belief that Sue Gray - a seasoned civil service mandarin with extensive cross-party Whitehall experience - acted, at the behest of the Labour Party in some kind of weird secondary role as a deep state, “secret agent” against the Conservatives and Boris Johnson is, for want of a better word, hilarious. 

And - 

If the suggestion is that Keir Starmer: tricked Boris Johnson and over 100 Downing St. staff and other MPs into breaking their own lockdown guidance, then managed to get Simon Case removed from the initial 'Partygate' investigation, then schemed to have Sue Gray emplaced at the forefront of the investigation but only before he convinced dozens of Conservative MPs [including Boris Johnson] to sing her praises for months on end only to eventually gang up and sack Johnson after he [and Labour, presumably] attempted to cover-up another scandal involving a ‘Pinchy’ Conservative MP, then Starmer deserves to be Prime Minister, quite frankly.

I mean, what a fiendish masterplan. What guile. What cunning.

Except - this isn't what has happened, but the noise created by those who say it did is about as astonishing, bewildering, hilarious, ludicrous and downright irritating as you might expect.