The top four 'Dom bombs' from Cummings's Substack

Just minutes before Prime Ministers’ Questions, Dominic Cummings did what he does best: fire off another salvo in one of his long-running feuds. The former chief special adviser took to Substack to hurl another 7,249 word grenade at his onetime Tory colleagues and while it’s the screenshots of Boris Johnson calling the testing situation ‘totally fucking hopeless’ that will get the most attention, there are a number of incendiary claims worth following up too. Below are the top four ‘Dom bombs’ identified by Mr Steerpike…

Hancock responsible for care homes debacle

Last week Matt Hancock told MPs he had seen no evidence to suggest any medical staff had died because of a lack of PPE and that ‘everybody got the treatment they needed.’ Cummings claims: ‘this is false, he knows it’s false, the PM knows it’s false, families of the dead know it’s false, the CSA [Chief Scientific Adviser] and CMO [Chief Medical Officer] know it’s false.’