Last week, the Culture Media and Sport Select Committee had a bit of a public tussle with Dominic Cummings, former special adviser to Michael Gove and more recently campaign director for Vote Leave. The CMS Committee wanted to speak to Cummings about inconsistencies between evidence he had already given to the Committee and more recent evidence which suggested that Vote Leave had sought to swing the referendum vote by planting “fake news” on Facebook. How does this kind of thing usually play out? In recently years we’ve seen this happen a couple of times – first with Rupert Murdoch and ...