Mr Cummings has an axe to grind with his old boss, but the image is not a new one. But from 19 July, Mr Johnson says Covid compliance will be a matter of personal responsibility. Dropping a “big bang” approach, Mr Johnson now talks of going as slowly as we can. But he made a point that Mr Johnson ought to remember. One of the “core problems of the Tory party brand”, said Mr Cummings in 2017, was that almost all British people love the NHS but most Tory MPs don’t care about it.

Source: The Guardian July 12, 2021 18:11 UTC