Dominic Cummings says Boris Johnson 'vandalised the country' as PM

Boris Johnson's erstwhile main of staff, Dominic Cummings, has deed retired astatine the ex PM and besides criticised his woman Carrie, accusing her and her friends of 'controlling Number 10'

Dominic Cummings has admitted for the archetypal clip helium was liable for Boris Johnson’s downfall arsenic PM and admits helium orchestrated it due to the fact that Boris was “vandalising the country”.

Johnson’s erstwhile main of staff besides blasts Johnson’s woman Carrie and says it was unacceptable for Carrie and her friends to beryllium “controlling Number 10 and with each the madness that entailed” portion Johnson rattled astir “being an idiot”. He brands existent Tory person Kemi Badenoch arsenic a “bad joke”.

“Anyone superior who dealt with her earlier knew she was a implicit useless dud. I deliberation Kemi volition beryllium got escaped of earlier excessively long. The Tories volition person different spasm.”

Admitting helium was the antheral down exposing the Partygate scandal, Cummings tells the Sunday Times: “Yeah, I mean obviously,” helium says. “I orchestrated it with a clump of different radical successful Westminster who agreed with maine that leaving him rattling astir No 10 making a full acceptable of appalling decisions should beryllium ended arsenic soon arsenic we could do.”

Describing his reasons helium added: “We had a benignant of work for it, right? We won the 2019 election. We told radical to ballot for it and we enactment him in. And past if you enactment idiosyncratic successful and past they benignant of spell disconnected the preservation and commencement really vandalising the country, well, you’ve evidently got a work to bash thing astir it.”

Cummings who was sacked by Johnson from his relation arsenic de facto main of unit successful November 2020, a fewer months aft being savaged by the media implicit his determination to thrust to the northeast of England and halt astatine Barnard Castle portion sick with Covid. He admits revenge whitethorn person been a factor: “Well, I mean, evidently there’s each kinds of idiosyncratic and affectional aspects to each of these things. But the cardinal happening was we didn’t triumph the 2019 predetermination truthful Boris could rattle astir being an idiot with Carrie and her friends controlling No 10 and with each the madness that that entailed.

“So my view, and the presumption of the different radical who helped maine region him, was that it’s conscionable an unpleasant task but it’s a cleaning the sewers benignant of role. No 1 wants to walk their clip doing thing similar that, but you’ve got a work to bash it.

“The basal occupation was … the cardinal happening astir Boris was that it was each astir him. It wasn’t astir the project. So successful 2019 helium was prepared to enactment highly radically and instrumentality connected Whitehall. [But] aft the election, helium thought, ‘Oh right, I’ve won now, I’ve got 4 years arsenic the king’.

“It’s not to bash with the country,” helium says. “It’s to bash with his cognition of himself and his ain appetites. As helium said to maine the week I left, ‘I’m definite you’ll extremity up being proved close connected my decisions. I’ve astir decidedly f***ed it each up. But what’s the constituent of being the king if I can’t f*** everything up? What’s the constituent of maine being the king if I’m conscionable going to bash what you archer maine to do?’”

Cummings admits his nemesis was not Johnson but his wife, Carrie, to whom helium attributes his downfall. “From her constituent of view, erstwhile we won the predetermination that was it, we’d fulfilled the happening that she wanted, which was her and Boris are present determination for 4 years.

“She knew Boris was evidently not going to beryllium successful complaint of a batch of things that are happening successful the government, due to the fact that he’s not funny successful it. So [she thought], ‘Why would I fto Dom beryllium the idiosyncratic successful charge? Why shouldn’t it beryllium maine [Carrie] and my friends successful charge?’ You tin benignant of spot her logic.”