He denied any wrongdoing and said he had not considered resigning.He went to a state primary school and was then privately educated at Durham School. “You … are too ready to blame others when things go wrong.” It’s easy to imagine Cummings writing the same to Johnson.One of Dominic Cummings’ biggest successes, so far, has been convincing so many people he’s a political original. Mr Cummings and his wife, who was also unwell, stayed in Durham, while self-isolating. The Mail has perhaps realised that they've been a bit too effective given they're now trying to attack whoever it was that spotted him. How easy will ministers find it to persuade the public to “do the right thing” when these same ministers have spent the past week defending Mr Cummings for doing the wrong thing? The government is moving deeper into the perilous phase of releasing lockdown measures when it cannot be entirely sure that it truly has the disease suppressed and before a test-and-trace regime has been adequately established.Another price has been paid in the degradation of the cabinet.
Ninety eight per cent of them are hostile.” Quite a lot of Tories think that the events of the past week, indisputably a gift to Labour, have made the next election harder to win.“It has hurt Boris,” says one former cabinet minister. The Johnson government, unlike Thatcher’s, doesn’t contain many able politicians or fresh thinkers. The short-term one of trying to minimise the damage as unemployment soars and plant closures multiply; and the longer-term one of accepting that there could be a parallel with the position in 1945, when the opportunity was taken to try and build a better society than had prevailed in the 1920s and 1930s.
There will come a time when taxes may have to be raised, but not in the immediate future.With regard to the latter, there were hopes that Johnson had learned from his resurrection at the hands of immigrant doctors and nurses that essential workers should no longer be taken for granted. Dominic Cummings messaged Emily Maitlis after Newsnight monologue More than 24,000 viewers complained about Maitlis’s speech criticising Cummings and the government It’s all sorts of people. But such hopes were not encouraged when he told the Commons that immigrant NHS workers would have to pay for NHS treatment because of “the cost”.It is difficult to know with which of the two conspirators one should be more disgusted – Cummings, who seems to have devoted half his shabby career to propelling this once-great country out of the EU; or Johnson, the solipsist who hitched himself to Cummings’s wagon as a route to No 10, the future of relations with our European partners being of secondary interest to him.Deeper and deeper he dug himself in, as one terminological inexactitude led to another, and the rule-breaker failed lamentably to justify breaking government lockdown instructions for which he was at least in part responsible.True, he was shamed into retreating from that heartless position, but it was not a good sign.The guru of Brexit and the 2019 election has been exposed. They want the prime minister’s chief adviser moved out. In 1981, at a low point in the Thatcher government’s popularity and performance, Hoskyns sent her a memo titled Your Political Survival. UPDATED Dominic Cummings specifically stated now in the press briefing that he had been eager to “get back to work to get vaccine deals through, move regulations aside” and that is why he drove to Barnard Castle to test his eyesight.
The pair would rail against what they called "the blob" - the informal alliance of senior civil servants and teachers' unions that sought, in his opinion, to frustrate his attempts at reform. By Ailbhe Rea. So another consequence of this episode is a recasting of the relationship between Number 10 and Conservative MPs. After 48 hours which saw the UK Government mishandle the Durham Dash crisis so badly that even the Daily Mail had to tell regretfully tell them "go home lads, you’re drunk" – No.10 moved to phase two of their crisis management plan.