Why Dominic Cummings’s campaign to discredit Boris Johnson should not be taken lightly
PM’s former aide desperately wanted to be The Man Who Beat Covid – his failure has been eating away at him since he was forced out of No 10
Behind the crumpled shirts, tracksuit bottoms and “critics go hang” persona of Dominic Cummings lies a man who really does care what people think of him. And most of all he wants to be seen as a winner.
Having been given huge credit – and even a Benedict Cumberbatch docu-drama – for his part in making Brexit happen, he desperately wanted to be The Man Who Beat Covid.