24 Apr 2021
Prime Minister Johnson’s former chief adviser has launched an astonishing broadside against his administration, saying he and his office have behaved unethically and fall “far below the standards of competence and integrity the country deserves.”
Dominic Cummings, widely regarded as the architect of the establishment Vote Leave campaign which ran in parallel to the larger, Nigel Farage-backed Leave.EU campaign during the EU referendum in 2016, rendered his judgment on Boris Johnson and his office in a 1,000-word blog post.
This was a response to Downing Street sources suggesting that Mr Cummings, who left Downing Street under a cloud amid reports of clashes with the Prime Minister’s woke fiancée Carrie Symonds, was the so-called “chatty rat” — responsible for leaking information about Johnson’s second lockdown, questionable personal assurances to business tycoon Sir James Dyson regarding taxes, possible private talks with the Saudi Crown prince over a football team buyout, and alleged efforts to secure donor funding for his accommodation to be refurbished.