He’s been scathing about his former boss’s handling of the pandemic, likening the prime minister to an out-of-control shopping trolley. “He is on a campaign to prove that Boris Johnson isn’t fit to be prime minister,” said Polly Mackenzie, chief executive of Demos, a think tank. Dominic Cummings, former special adviser to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, looks on outside of his house, in London in May last year. Published by the Guardian, it shows him in the Downing Street garden next to Johnson and Reynolds. If Johnson were to seek to create scapegoats of more junior officials in Downing Street to save himself, that could backfire, she said.

Source: The Times January 16, 2022 00:34 UTC