andrewducker | (Reply)

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In further thought:

Most of what you say is things I already know. Which suggests that you're not addressing what's really puzzling me, which in turn suggests that I may not have phrased my question clearly enough.

For instance, I know why a PM might not want to sack a troublesome minister, and indeed considered putting a discussion of that in my original comment, but what I can't follow is why, having decided to sack them anyway, a PM would change their minds on having this pointed out. Any experienced politician would have weighed this in the balance already.

I guess what I mean is that I don't need to know why things are as they are so much as why they're different than they were on previous occasions when they've been as they are.