Cummings says 'useless' Boris 'admitted he would be a ludicrous PM'

‘Useless’ Boris Johnson ‘admitted he would be a ludicrous Prime Minister’ and Carrie is a ‘wildcard’ in a ‘weird’ relationship with the PM: Dominic Cummings fires yet another bruising broadside at Downing Street

  • Cummings said Boris ‘unfit’ to be PM when he went to work for him in 2019
  • But Brexiteer wanted to ensure Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour did not win election
  • He also lashed out at the Prime Minister’s now wife, Carrie Johnson,
  • Said that 2019 he regarded her as a ‘wildcard’ in a ‘weird’ relationship with Boris 

Boris Johnson knows he is a ‘ludicrous’ Prime Minister, Dominic Cummings claimed today as he fired yet another bruising broadside at Downing Street. 

Mr Johnson’s former top aid said he believed Boris Johnson was ‘unfit’ to occupy No10 when he went to work for him in 2019, but wanted to ensure Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour did not win that year’s election.

In his latest outpouring on the self-publishing website Substack he defended his decision to work for Mr Johnson, despite believing he was not up to running the country.

He also lashed out at the Prime Minister’s now wife, Carrie Johnson, saying that in 2019 he regarded her as a ‘wildcard’ in a ‘weird’ relationship with the Tory leader.

The pair appear to have been on he same team at the time, before they catastrophically fell out last year, prompting Mr Cummings’ defenestration from No10 late last year. 

Mr Cummings wrote today that Mr Johnson called him into a room the day after the 2016 Brexit referendum and said ‘with a laugh ”Obviously it’s ludicrous me being PM — but no more ludicrous than Dave (Cameron) or George (Osborne), don’t you think?” 

The former aide raised the prospect of trying to overthrow the PM if he won the 2019 election and then tried to get rid of him and his associates. 

Mr Johnson’s former top aid said he believed Boris Johnson was ‘unfit’ to occupy No10 when he went to work for him in 2019, but wanted to ensure Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour did not win that year’s election.

Mr Cummings wrote today that Mr Johnson called him into a room the day after the 2016 Brexit referendum and said ‘with a laugh ”Obviously it’s ludicrous me being PM — but no more ludicrous than Dave (Cameron) or George (Osborne), don’t you think?”

He also lashed out at the Prime Minister’s now wife, Carrie Johnson, saying that in 2019 he regarded her as a ‘wildcard’ in a ‘weird’ relationship with the Tory leader.

He added that the PM lies ‘so blatantly, so naturally, so regularly, that there is no real distinction possible with him, as there is with normal people, between truth and lies’. 

‘He trusts nobody including his own family yet bears almost no grudges,’ Mr Cummings wrote.

‘He sometimes compares himself to historic titans (Octavian is a favourite) and regularly admits it’s ludicrous he’s Prime Minister.

‘He’s hopeless at bureaucratic infighting and examines every room he enters for physical escape routes.

‘He is both much more useless than the media portray and much more capable of self-awareness and ruthlessness than they ever portray, or his enemies usually discern. 

‘He routinely says and does things so foolish that people are open-mouthed, and is so hopeless at getting rid of duffers, so determined to avoid difficult situations, that people are usually shocked when he suddenly moves with ruthless speed to remove them. 

‘He was desperate to be Prime Minister but has almost no interest in the job.’

Discussing his rationale in 2019 for joining Mr Johnson’s top team, he added: ‘Boris is obviously unfit for the job but… the combination of a second referendum and Corbyn would probably be an even bigger disaster than Boris as PM. 

‘A second referendum will be violent, MPs won’t be able to campaign safely outside the M25 without armed guards. If we get Brexit done, all sorts of good things will happen and are possible.’

And turning his attention to the now Mrs Johnson he wrote of his belief in 2019: ‘Carrie is a wildcard. 

‘At the moment she’s on our side because a) she knows he (Boris) has no plan for what to do and can’t make plans, b) she knows he will get eaten alive by the machine and the MPs around him don’t know what to do, c) she hates his other advisors and doesn’t want them pulling his strings. 

‘It is extremely useful that she wants our team to go to No10 and is telling him to agree my terms. But she’s also a standard Westminster press officer who confuses ”political communication” with ”talking to/being friends with the lobby”.

‘She wants to bring into senior roles friends like the grotesque gossip columnist Wikham (sic). Their relationship is weird — God knows what will happen. History is full of these sort of situations going haywire.’

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