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Cummings accuses PM of encouraging attacks on junior staff over No 10 partiti
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Dominic Cummings has accused Boris Johnson of encouraging attacks on junior civil servants over the “partygate” scandal in order to protect himself and his wife, Carrie. The prime minister’s onetime senior aide said s...
Dining across the divide: ‘He takes a Dominic Cummings approach of razing things to the ground’
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Occupation SolicitorVoting record Conservative in the past “out of naivety”, and since then Lib Dem. Voted remain Amuse bouche Elbow’s Guy Garvey once let her try a sip of his pint. It was a stout Occupation Bar staff...
Dominic Cummings accuses Boris Johnson of lying in Lebedev row
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Dominic Cummings has accused Boris Johnson of lying over claims that intelligence officers’ security concerns about giving a peerage to a Russian media magnate and son of a former KGB were overridden. The prime minist...
I don’t trust PM not to leak interview with Sue Gray, says Cummings
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Dominic Cummings has submitted written evidence to the inquiry into lockdown breaches in Downing Street in 2020, telling Sue Gray he did not trust Boris Johnson not to leak his conversations with the inquiry chief. L...
Ben Jennings on Dominic Cummings throwing Boris Johnson under the bus – cartoon
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Government wins appeal over contract for firm linked to Dominic Cummings
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The court of appeal has overturned a ruling that found that a government contract given to a polling company with links to Dominic Cummings was unlawful. The lord chief justice reversed a ruling made last year after h...
Boris Johnson lied about lockdown party, Dominic Cummings claims
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Dominic Cummings has accused Boris Johnson of lying after No 10 denied the prime minister was warned against allowing a “bring your own booze” party during the first lockdown. Johnson admitted to parliament last week ...
Intoxicating, insidery and infuriating: everything I learned about Dominic Cummings from his £10-a-month blog
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Who is the most interesting writer about politics in Britain today? No question, it’s Dominic Cummings. The Substack blog he started in June last year is not cheap – £10 a month for an erratic and irregular output via...
No end in sight for Dominic Cummings’ briefing war against Johnson
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When Dominic Cummings left Downing Street in November 2020, it was meant to be an amicable departure from Boris Johnson. But it soured within days, amid a briefing war. The prime minister’s former chief aide and his a...
Dominic Cummings makes new claim of party in No 10 garden in lockdown
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Dominic Cummings has alleged there was a lockdown-breaking party in the Downing Street garden five days after Boris Johnson and up to 17 staff were pictured with wine and cheese. The prime minister’s former top advise...
Laura Cumming’s best art of 2021
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This was the year of the great exhibition – in spite of the plague. Galleries offered online shows when they couldn’t open and riches when they could, no matter the havoc of cancelled loans, insurance hikes and unreli...
TV stasera: Miriam Margolyes and Alan Cumming’s cheeky carry on around Scotland
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“Gird your loins, Miriam … ” We’re off on a three-part campervan adventure around Scotland with TV’s new golden odd couple, Miriam Margolyes and Alan Cumming. Retracing their childhoods, the pair reveal their guarded...
Dominic Cummings says UK always intended to ditch NI protocol
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The UK government always intended to “ditch” the Northern Ireland protocol, Boris Johnson’s former adviser Dominic Cummings has claimed. In a string of tweets, Cummings said the flawed Brexit deal had been a way to ge...
Cummings right about ‘false groupthink’, says Covid inquiry chair
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Dominic Cummings was at least partly correct in castigating the government for being too slow to respond to the initial threat of coronavirus, a co-chair of the Commons inquiry into the pandemic has said. Over seven h...
Dominic Cummings criticised for failure to seek approval over paid-for blog
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Dominic Cummings has been criticised by a watchdog for failing to seek approval before setting up his paid-for blog, which he uses to make revelations about his time as the prime minister’s chief adviser. Cummings, wh ...
Want to read Dominic Cummings’ innermost thoughts? That’s going to cost you
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Once upon a time, Dominic Cummings had a blog and a very interesting one it was too. Adesso, he has a different kind of blog, which takes the form of a Substack newsletter. This comes in two flavours: one is free; the ot...