Boris Johnson’s former adviser Dominic Cummings has described the prime minister as unfit for office and claimed that the British government’s failures were responsible for tens of thousands of coronavirus deaths. He accused Mr Hancock of “criminal, disgraceful behaviour” and of lying repeatedly to Mr Johnson, other ministers and civil servants. He left Downing Street in November following a dispute over who should fill key positions around the prime minister. He had the view that he was prime minister and I should just be doing what he wanted me to,” he said. Asked about Mr Cummings’s claims during prime minister’s questions, Mr Johnson said nobody could accuse his government of complacency in the face of the pandemic.

Source: The Irish Times May 26, 2021 16:07 UTC