Nigel Jones

Is Dominic Cummings’ ‘start up party’ a non-starter?

Dominic Cummings (Credit: Getty images)

We haven’t heard much from Dominic Cummings since he walked out of No. 10 Downing Street in November 2020. Now the cerebral Vote Leave mastermind has broken his silence and given us an insight into his latest project. He has proposed a new ‘start up’ party to replace the Tories after what he expects will be their decimation at the next election.

In an interview with the i newspaper and in an essay on his own Substack post, the Svengali behind Boris Johnson’s rise and fall offers a typically withering analysis of what he calls the ‘shit show’ Tories. He is equally scathing about their likely replacement with Keir Starmer’s Labour party.

Cummings believes the start up party would magically arise like a phoenix from the ashes of the old Westminster parties

Cummings castigates the Tories for presiding over a society hostile to entrepreneurs, with mounting debt, failing public services, and full of violent crime and uncontrolled immigration.

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