Note the timestamps…

Sources: Leadsom quitting at noon.

— Guido Fawkes (@GuidoFawkes) July 11, 2016

Westminster rumour mill going into overdrive over Leadsom statement and what it might be ……..

— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) July 11, 2016

Source tells me Leadsom to pull out at 12 – not confirmed

— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) July 11, 2016

Laura Kuenssberg follows Guido on Twitter. Her tweet was by definition not a scoop – as over 200,000 followers of Guido’s Twitter feed know. Lobby hacks were already furiously re-tweeting Guido before Laura followed up three minutes later. So this bit of bragging from BBC News is just demonstrably untrue:

Anatomy of a political scoop – how @bbclaurak broke news of @andrealeadsom‘s #ToryLeadership exithttps://t.co/tRrs6u3xrh

— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) July 11, 2016

Mark Thompson the former Director-General of the BBC explained a truth of modern digital journalism:

“… Guido Fawkes and a thousand others may deliver their scoops and insights with less precision and restraint than their traditional counterparts, but they deliver them all the same…”

Guido’s co-conspirators know we’re #1 for fast breaking political news; last week we broke the news that Nigel Farage was stepping down as UKIP leader before any other media outlet. Embarrassing that Auntie is trying to spin otherwise…