Politoblog

I'll bin you within weeks if you don't fit - don't complain later because I made it clear now. - From a job advert on Dominic Cummings's Blog, 2 January 2020 I wasn’t sure if I wanted to make this post, because I feel that everything that could possibly be said about this scandal has already been said. But then I read this morning that the government is, unsurprisingly, looking to pull attention from a story which is damaging confidence in the government and the credibility of their plan to tackle the coronavirus. A few days ago I said that I don’t believe we live in a world where Dominic Cummings gets sacked – then I started obsessively following this story and decided that I wanted to say my piece. So here is my take on the Dominic Cummings story in tweets. We recently learnt that not only had Boris Johnson’s most senior Special Adviser driven 260 miles from London to Durham at the height of lockdown in March, but also that he did not stay inside while he was there ...