The Government has just released their Annual Report on Special Advisers, which details the wages of every SpAd in Whitehall. The top earners are those at Boris’s right hand:

• Sir Edward Lister  £140,000-£144,999
• Munira Mirza  £140,000-£144,999
• Dan Rosenfield  £140,000-£144,999

Notably Lee Cain and Dominic Cummings are are not included in the list. Still, a footnote says that both were in the pay band £140,000-£144,999. Lee Cain staying at the same level as last time, while a 50% pay hike for Cummings breached the old 2016 Vote Leave rule that no one working on the campaign earned over £100,000. Alright for some…

*Last year Cummings was in the £95,000 to £100,000 band, that’s jumped this year to £140,000 to £145,000. So his pay rose between a minimum of £40,000 to a maximum of £50,000. This was during a public sector pay freeze with average SpAd pay rising a mere 1%. He is, technically, still on the payroll…