All the clashes between Johnson and Cummings
Because the rags fly between Johnson and his former Chief Advisor Cummings. The article by Daniele Meloni
“In politics a week lasts a lifetime”. This was said by Margaret Thatcher, one of Boris Johnson's mentors at the time of his literary studies at Oxford. In his case, however, the week was halved. After having led the crowd against SuperLeague fans, and garnered acclaim for the vaccination plan that brought the UK out of the pandemic, Johnson found himself already on Friday to deal with the revelations of his former prince adviser , Dominic. Cummings, who shot zero at him, his fiancée, his way of governing and all of Downing Street. A fire that, if possible, will swell even more instead of going out.
It is good use by politicians' collaborators to hide behind the utmost discretion even after having terminated the mandate in an acrimonious manner as Cummings did at the end of 2020. But if acrimony exceeds professional ethics then there is a risk of falling into the current situation, which sees Johnson's former Chief Advisor blasting the premier in the newspapers with embarrassing revelations about life in Downing Street in the BoJo era. "I created you and I destroy you" seems to be the motto of "Dom", who was the architect of the successful communication campaigns for Brexit and for the 2019 elections.
Then, something between the two inevitably broke. Last spring Cummings was caught breaking the lockdown to visit his family in Barnard Castle, Yorkshire, from London. The Premier aide's laughable apology ("I traveled to see if my eyesight had settled after a small operation") plummeted confidence in Johnson, who reached the lowest point of his premiership in the polls. Yet, the Premier confirmed Cummings, even against the many voices in the party who wanted him out of the halls of power. The farewell was postponed until winter, when it is said that, and after an argument with BoJo's partner, both Cummings and the then chief of communications, Lee Cain, left Downing Street. The media did not seem real to photograph the image of the Rasputin of British politics as he walked out of his office with the Lehman Brothers-style boxes of 2008 in his hand.
But Cummings didn't give up and started talking. He first criticized Matt Hancock, the health minister, saying he was incapable of how he handled the first phase of the pandemic. Then he raised the target higher and said Johnson stopped an internal government investigation after he found out that the classified news reporter was the best friend of his girlfriend Carrie, who plans to refurbish the room for the press briefings would have been "illegal" if carried out as Johnson wanted and, finally, he denied being the mole who revealed the text messages between the Premier and Sir Dyson about supplying fans when the pandemic broke out. Another fine mess, another nice mess, Laurel and Hardy would say.
Thus, Johnson's Cabinet Secretary Simon Case will be called to testify to the Parliamentary Committee on PA and Constitutional Affairs even though he has already denied the veracity of Cummings' claims. What is being questioned is the integrity of the Tory government and its boss, even after the revelations about text messages from former Premier Cameron to Treasury officials and Minister Sunak to help Greensill Capital , a financial consultant he was consulting, to avoid. the failure.
Labor has launched into the controversy, reviving a word that was used by New Labor to label John Major's government in the 1990s: sleaze, literally, "filth" or "rot." For Starmer this is a great opportunity to recover consensus also in view of the local elections on May 6th. Surely Johnson must be careful and prevent the scandal from spreading but some commentators have asked themselves a question: proved that in all this there is nothing that goes against the current rules, because the voters who gave their vote to the reckless and eccentric Should Johnson in 2019 drop him now if it is precisely this insanity of his that prompted them to vote for him? The polls, which give the Tories an average of 9 to 13 points ahead, are there to prove it.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/tutti-gli-scazzi-fra-johnson-e-cummings/ on Mon, 26 Apr 2021 08:20:09 +0000.