Dominic Cummings has savaged Boris Johnson and his government during a blistering seven hours of testimony to MPs on Wednesday about the response from Number 10 to the pandemic. “Tens of thousands of people died who didn’t need to die” during the pandemic because of government failings, said Cummings, who claimed the prime minister dismissed […]
Dominic Cummings has broken his silence about his days at Downing Street with a devastating critique about the prime minister’s ”possibly illegal” behaviour in Number 10. Among the astonishing claims made by Boris Johnson’s ex-chief advisor are that Johnson asked him if it was possible to quash an inquiry into leaks as it would end […]
Boris Johnson has taken control of Number 10 by sacking his chief adviser Dominic Cummings just 11 disastrous months after the chief advisor delivered a landslide election victory. It is also just seven weeks until the end of the UK’s transition period from the EU and Cummings’ exit from Number 10 follows fast behind director […]
The UK’s most senior civil servant has announced he will stand down in September following months of tension at the heart of Downing Street. Number 10 has blamed the top mandarin for the government’s coronavirus failings as well as blocking reforms in Whitehall so the departure of Sir Mark Sedwill – the cabinet secretary, head […]
Boris Johnson has unveiled the next lifting of lockdown measures but the details have been overshadowed by the continuing furore surrounding his most senior adviser’s breach of lockdown rules. Dominic Cummings claimed “exceptional circumstances” means he behaved “responsibly and legally” and therefore did not breach the rules he helped set, in an extraordinary press conference […]
Ministers have rallied to support the prime minister’s chief advisor Dominic Cummings as “devastating new claims” emerge about a further breach of the lockdown rules. Boris Johnson’s special advisor (SPAD) has been under fire since news broke last night that Cummings drove 264 miles from London to his parents’ Durham property with his wife and […]
Sir Patrick Vallance has breathed new life into Rishi Sunak’s image as Dr Death at the Covid Inquiry after evidence revealed the prime minister said the government should “just let people die” during the pandemic. Vallance – the government’s chief scientific advisor (CSA) when Covid hit – also contradicted Sunak’s written evidence to the inquiry […]
The Liberal Democrats are demanding transparency over government Covid contracts and multi-million pound “bungs” to friendly media following Dominic Cummings’s explosive testimony to the Coivd Inquiry [pdf]. Cummings told the inquiry that state funding had been “funnelled” to the Evening Standard, owned by Lord Evgeny Lebedev – the son of a KGB spy who was […]
Two of Boris Johnson’s closest advisers and strongest allies have eviscerated the disgraced former prime minister in testimony to the Covid Inquiry. Dominic Cummings was a staunch cheerleader for Johnson and architect of the 2019 general election “to get Brexit done” campaign that secured a 80 seat majority for the Tories. Lee Cain was Johnson’s […]
After the release of the full Sue Gray report, the Tory party is, once again, in total disarray because of, what one Tory MP described as ‘total failure of leadership’ on the part of Boris Johnson. While people up and down the country were adhering to strict Covid19 rules, wine and beer were flowing in […]