Dominic Cummings: Boris Johnson knows its
‘ludicrous’ he’s prime minister
The former aide paints his old boss as unfocused and
desperate to please.
Former number 10 special adviser Dominic Cummings made
the comments in a blog about why he agreed to support UK Prime Minister Johnson
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BY ANDREW
MCDONALD
July 5,
2021 4:27 pm
Boris
Johnson “regularly admits” he is unfit to be the U.K.’s prime minister, his
former chief aide Dominic Cummings claimed.
Cummings —
the most senior adviser in Downing Street until he left government in November
2020 — said his old boss first acknowledged it would be “ludicrous” for him to
become prime minister in 2016 after the pair helped deliver a Leave vote in the
Brexit referendum.
Since
entering Downing Street three years later, Johnson “regularly admits it’s
ludicrous he’s prime minister,” according to Cummings, who has used his
Substack newsletter and a parliamentary committee session to launch multiple
attacks on his former boss in recent months.
Cummings
made the comments in a blog about why he agreed to support Johnson when he
entered Downing Street in 2019. The former top No. 10 aide said he knew
beforehand that Johnson was “unfit” to be U.K. leader, and claimed the
Conservative chief lies “so blatantly, so naturally, so regularly” while being
uninterested in policy.
Cummings
claimed he agreed to work for Johnson in 2019 to prevent a second Brexit
referendum and stop then-Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn from entering Downing
Street. He said he made Johnson agree to “written terms” that set his power in
stone.
The former
aide paints a picture of two Johnsons: one who is unfocused and eager to please
alongside another, rarer seen, Johnson capable of being ruthless when
necessary.
“He is both
much more useless than the media portray and much more capable of
self-awareness and ruthlessness than they ever portray, or his enemies usually
discern,” Cummings writes. “Remember, though, neither mode has any interest in
either policy or governing for their own sake.”
“He was
desperate to be Prime Minister but has almost no interest in the job,” the
former aide wrote.
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