Mr S was sipping his breakfast tea when he saw this plea from deposed Cabinet minister Owen Paterson:
I’m looking for someone to run my new office, but I seem to have lost Dominic Cummings’s phone number. Can anyone help?
— Owen Paterson MP (@Owen_PatersonMP) July 21, 2014
Cameroons need not apply.

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