Humpty Dumpty, Did Boris Johnson break the Ministerial Code?

“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be the master, that’s all.”

A slew of articles with this title have appeared in the papers and on news websites in the wake of revelations that the Prime Minister failed to declare his external contract with James Dyson. The answer to that question, they would have it, is no. The Guardian reported that a former senior civil servant believed that text messages were not covered by the Ministerial Code. Tom Brake, a…