After that, things moved fast, with Oliver Dowden announcing his resignation as Tory party chairman at about 5.30am. Something that will have been as much of a shock to Dowden as it was to everyone else. And given that the Convict was a narcissist incapable of taking responsibility for anything, it had better be him. Which was odd, as literally no one had ever thought that Dowden had been the Partygate ringleader. With Dowden out the way, it was left to Dominic Raab to fill the party chair-sized hole in the morning media round.

Source: The Guardian June 24, 2022 22:34 UTC