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					Originally Posted by  Damien
					 
				 
				This is what I don't understand. How much must he be worth to Boris Johnson for this is be worth it for him? 
 
A lot of the time we overestimate how much people care but this seems like a classic scandal that people have paid attention too. Johnson is risking taking a hit over this. 
			
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 Normally, if Boris was evaluating this kind of decision, he would go to his data analyst who would give him the relevant intelligence from a balanced dataset of 2,000 voters.
However, in this situation, the data analyst - Dominic Cummings - is the subject in question. So Boris Johnson is removed from his more voter-focused decision-making mechanism and has to go by his instincts, which is to support the man who got him into power.
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					Originally Posted by  jfman
					 
				 
				So are you not welcoming the police investigation and possibility that the witness gets prosecuted for wasting police time in the unlikely event you are right? 
			
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 I certainly am. 
Pierre, what about you?