Twitter and certain journalists (who should know better) have become very excited this morning after the "revelation" that government whips applied pressure and tried to blackmail to potential Johnson letter writers.
As per the BBC Class Clips, here is a definition of whip:
"The whips are a group of MPs who are in charge of party discipline. It is their job to make sure MPs on their side all vote with the party line. They are notoriously secretive about the way they work and have a reputation for using torture and blackmail against MPs."
The journalists who are getting excited really ought to have known that blackmail is part of the whips' M.O.!
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