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is made. 0urfocus is on delivering for the public . it goes on to say the prime minister has full confidence in the health secretary and finishes off by saying that the prime minister himself has said before, it is utter nonsense that he will step down early. so they are kind of batting this away a bit, aren t they? aren t they? yes, there was a briefin: aren t they? yes, there was a briefing for aren t they? yes, there was a briefing for political aren t they? yes, there was a | briefing for politicaljournalists going on even as we were speaking so thatis going on even as we were speaking so that is where those lines have been emerging from and that is where downing street would make its response. i did not even get to that particular bit of the dominic cummings blog before the response but he also said the prime minister had a clear plan to step down within two years of the next general election so they have engaged with that bit. they are suggesting that is not necessarily the