Against Dominic Cummings

I’m no Westminster insider, but there comes a point when you have to consider that perhaps Carrie Johnson was right about Dominic Cummings. That point for me arrived in May last year when, without giving any indication he might be the one at fault, Cummings unblinkingly described to a parliamentary committee his relationship with his former boss, Carrie’s husband the British Prime Minister: 

‘The heart of the problem was, fundamentally, I regarded him as unfit for the job and I was trying to create a structure around him to try and stop what I thought were extremely bad decisions, and to push other things through against his wishes. And he had the view that he was Prime Minister and I should be doing what he wanted me to do. And that’s obviously not sustainable for very long.’

At the time, the arrogance and basic mendaciousness of this statement seemed astonishing. This was an unelected official quite openly admitting to deliberately stymying the work of the nation’s democratically elected leader.