The most basic of tradecraft. The late John LeCarré would have been proud if he hadn’t absolutely loathed those Brexity bastards.
ETA: reading an excellent obituary in the Guardian just now I want to add this:
“The thing you need to understand about Eton,” he told me not so long ago, apropos Mr Johnson and the place where he himself once taught, “is that the pupils are taught to win, not govern.”
