Tories seem to be much better organised this campaign under Cummings. Last night Channel 4 (UK's version of CNN) hosted a climate debate which Boris Johnson didn't want to do as C4 have a history of bias against the Conservative Party. Rumour yesterday, correct as it turned out, was that C4 were going to use an ice sculpture in place of Johnson, so instead they sent the former environment minister Michael Gove (
with his own film) crew to try and get himself on the debate, which of course wouldn't be allowed as it was a leaders' debate and the other leaders wouldn't agree.
So now the main stories in the media aren't about a Boris no-show, it's about a "media row" over the debate, and C4 may have actually broken media impartiality laws by denying the Conservatives a platform.