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NOBODY should have been surprised when the worm turned. Dominic Cummings not only lacks loyalty to the Conservative party, he has always had a dim view of those leading it. He was, briefly, Tory Head of Strategy but left describing the then leader Iain Duncan Smith as a “muppet” and “incompetent”. David Cameron he labelled a “sphinx without a riddle”, bumbling “from one shambles to another” whilst he has now called Johnson “unfit” to be Prime Minister, and likened him to a “shopping trolley, smashing from one side of the aisle to the other” . Yet it is not just party leaders who are subject to his scorn. He memorably called David Davis “thick as mince, lazy as a toad and vain as Narcissus”, said that the European Research Group, when chaired by Jacob Rees Mogg should be “treated like a metastasising tumour and excised from the UK body politic” and this week called Matt Hancock a serial liar and his Health department a “smoking ruin”.