I think it is in everyone’s interest to leak this story tbh.
C & C position themselves as accommodating and get to distract from the ongoing AMW investigation.
H & M potentially position themselves as being back in the fold again.
The RF overall benefits from not having an ongoing soap opera in their midst.
Various thoroughly ghastly pundits such as Marc Dolan, Richard Eden, even Laurence Llewelyn Bowen is in on the act now , get to make money off the ongoing dramatisation of this story.
As a Republican, I think the level of interest is absurd and that we should keep our eyes well and truly trained on the activities within the AMW investigation and who knew, what and when?