Rat or stitch-up victim: how will history judge Gavin Williamson? | Simon Jenkins

The former defence secretary protests his innocence. But a sweary put-down of Theresa May can’t have helped his case

Is Gavin Williamson a disloyal rat, or is he a Tory Julian Assange, a valiant champion of open government in an age of secrecy? Is he a menace to national security, or is he the innocent victim of a toffs’ stitch-up? For an answer we may have to await a future memoir from one of the participants in this episode. But even then, the essence of a leak is deniability. The wink, the...