JO Johnson described Brexit as a “parlour game” in this week’s Spectator and offered an insight into government machinery when a minister resigns. “The Department for Transport driver knocked on our front door for the second time in half an hour and said he was collecting the red box full of ministerial papers he’d delivered minutes before,” he said. There was also “the instantaneous deletion of my policy adviser’s entire email system from her smartphone. while she was in the middle of sending a message”.