Insiders had started to brief over-optimistically about the progress of the police investigation - but after the latest update from Scotland Yard that assumption has evaporated.
Questionnaires were still being issued last week. Interviews with witnesses are still going.
Almost as significantly for the sound functioning of Whitehall is the cloud remaining over the head of the Cabinet Secretary Simon Case.Nominally the most important official in the land, he continues to have to field questions about his own law breaking and whether he's received a fine. Mr Case's choice to walk into the Stoke regional cabinet meeting today via the TV cameras, an appearance which descended into a painful shuffle staring at the floor as he faced a barrage of questions about fines, will be noted by ambitious and more cautious colleagues alike across Whitehall.There is no decision to unseat the PM. There is not much of a plot. There is no obvious successor.
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