the prime minister doesn t have a plan and he doesn t know how whitehall works. someone is going to set the agenda. it is going to be the civil service, or the vote leave team, or me. as soon as the election was one night, her view was, why should it be dominic and the leave team, why shouldn t it be me that is pulling the strings? in response to mr cummings claims, downing street told us political appointments are entirely made by the prime minister. in the end, you lose the argument, you lose that influence. that s what happened, isn t it? that s what happened, isn t it? yeah, in fact, literally immediately after the election, it was already clear that this was a problem. before mid january, we were having meetings in numberten,
and campaigning stuff. he was the elected prime minister. you were an unelected adviser. yeah, we basically disagreed on what was happening on covid. i thought his girlfriend was interfering with appointments, people who were being. she wanted to have people fired and have people promoted in ways that i thought were unethical and unprofessional. and that also led to a big argument between us. accusing somebody of having undue influence, which is what you are doing, is a big claim. the prime minister doesn t have a plan and he doesn t know how whitehall works. someone is going to set the agenda. it is going to be the civil service, or the vote leave team, or me. as soon as the election was one night, her view was, why should it be dominic
mr cummings, who had been director of the vote leave campaign in 2016, also suggested that people who were completely sure that brexit was a good idea had got a screw loose . he spoke to our political editor laura kuenssberg. what really happened? this man used to be one of the most powerful figures in the government, but his friendship of political convenience with the prime ministerfell to bits. borisjohnson and dominic cummings became foes. their strategy had produced a massive win at the election. well, we did it, we did it. once they were all safely installed in number ten, he ended up on the outside. he was fed up with the media portrayal of him being a kind of puppet for the vote leave team. it was driving him round the bend. he was upset about the fact, connected to that, that essentially i was spending my time on what i thought was important, not on politics, not on media and communication
editor laura kuenssberg. what really happened? this man used to be one of the most powerful figures in the government, but his friendship of political convenience with the prime ministerfell to bits. borisjohnson and dominic cummings became foes. their strategy had produced a massive win at the election. well, we did it, we did it. once they were all safely installed in number ten, he ended up on the outside. he was fed up with the media portrayal of him being a kind of puppet for the vote leave team. it was driving him round the bend. he was upset about the fact, connected to that, that essentially i was spending my time on what i thought was important, not on politics, not on media and communication and campaigning stuff. he was the elected prime minister. you were an unelected adviser. yeah, we basically disagreed on what was happening on covid.
he was the elected prime minister. you were an unelected adviser. yeah, we basically disagreed on what was happening on covid. i thought his girlfriend was interfering with appointments, people who were being. she wanted to have people fired and have people promoted in ways that i thought were unethical and unprofessional. and that also led to a big argument between us. accusing somebody of having undue influence, which is what you are doing, is a big claim. the prime minister doesn t have a plan and he doesn t know how whitehall works. someone is going to set the agenda. it is going to be the civil service, or the vote leave team, or me. as soon as the election was one night, her view was, why should it be dominic and the leave team, why shouldn t it be me that is pulling the strings?