The Times political correspondent Sam Coates, ever keen to stress the “exclusivity†of his toils at the House of Commons, has adopted a breathless tone which has left colleagues chuckling.
In one dreary tale about grammar schools, Coates said Tory MP Graham Brady had “passed data to The Timesâ€. In the same story, Coates gets even more excited as Brady “passes a letter to The Timesâ€.
Put simply, Coates printed a press release from a Tory MP who was keen to see his story in the paper ‒ not exactly Watergate, is it?
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