Dominic Cummings

Boris Johnson signed off on the £100 billion High Speed 2 rail line based on "garbage" data predicting an exponential increase in demand for the service, Dominic Cummings has claimed. In a posting on the Substack website, the Prime Minister's former chief adviser, said that he and other officials had...

Dominic Cummings is planning to charge newsletter subscribers to hear about his time inside Downing Street. Boris Johnson’s former top aide has launched a profile on Substack, a newsletter platform that allows people to sign up for newsletter mailing lists on topics they find interesting. In a post on the...

Dominic Cummings is planning to publish a paid-for newsletter in which subscribers can learn about his time inside Downing Street. Boris Johnson’s former top aide has launched a profile on Substack, a platform that allows people to sign up to newsletter mailing lists. In a post on the site, Cummings...

Dominic Cummings vowed to produce fresh evidence to back up his account of multiple Government failings in its response to the Covid crisis. He spoke out after he was rebuked on Thursday by two committee chairmen for failing so far to supply further proof of his explosive claims two weeks ago.

Dominic Cummings is planning to charge newsletter subscribers to hear about his time inside Downing Street. Boris Johnson’s former top aide has launched a profile on Substack, a newsletter platform that allows people to sign up for newsletter mailing lists on topics they find interesting. In a post on the...

Matt Hancock’s appearance before the health and science select committee was expected to be all about his robust denial of Dominic Cummings’ bombshell testimony a fortnight earlier. And while that did happen, the more striking evidence from the Health Secretary about his role in the early stages of the pandemic...

MPs have written to Dominic Cummings demanding that he provide proof for a number of serious allegations against the health secretary, Matt Hancock, who will face a parliamentary inquiry on Thursday. Cummings, who left his post as Boris Johnson’s most senior aide last year, spoke to a joint committee inquiry...

A Government decision to award a coronavirus contract to a firm run by friends of Michael Gove and Dominic Cummings was unlawful and gave rise to "apparent bias," a High Court judge has ruled. The Cabinet Office spent more than £500,000 of public money at the height of the pandemic...

The Government acted unlawfully by awarding a contract to a company with close links to former chief adviser to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Dominic Cummings – and Minister for the Cabinet Office, Michael Gove, a High Court judge has found. Campaigners took legal action against the Cabinet Office last year...

Dominic Cummings has not yet provided evidence to back up his accusations that Matt Hancock “repeatedly lied” to the public and to ministers over the Government’s Covid-19 response. The former adviser to the Prime Minister made a host of damning accusations about the Health Secretary during his evidence session in...

Well, well, well, what a bumper week it has been for asterisks – they’ve been quite wantonly strewn about in the newspapers and online. According to reports, a No 10 text calls Dominic Cummings a “disingenuous little f*cker”. Cummings himself utters a “sh*t”and a “f*ck’” during his select committee appearance (sensational or sour grapes, depending on your taste), while in the normally sedate and well-mannered world of golf, Brooks Koepka, being interviewed on television after the US PGA at Kiawah Island, reacted to a comment from fellow US player Bryson DeChambeau on the best way to play the game with: “I lost my train of thought; hearing that bulls***; f***ing Christ.” (Apparently, these alpha males of the links have a bit of previous.)