Some days the prime minister could laugh it off, but other days he didn’t.”Ĭummings also barred Johnson from meeting Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 Committee of Tory MPs, it states. “After the election, Boris no longer wanted to be treated as a tempestuous thoroughbred, with a strong whip and bridle to keep him in order. Photograph: Thomas Krych/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock “He gave no other thought to a different way of running No 10 after the landslide than relying still on Dom almost exclusively, though he started to resent the fact that Dom would treat him if not like Jeeves and Wooster, then perhaps like the lord protector with a young and inexperienced king,” said Gove. Gove is featured in the book describing how relations between Cummings and Johnson soured soon after the 2019 election victory, which saw them secure an 80-strong majority for the Conservatives. I’m the king who takes the decisions.”Ī spokesperson for Johnson told the Times, which has serialised the book, that the revelations were “the usual malevolent and sexist twaddle” from the former PM’s enemies. The book claims it eventually led to the extraordinary outburst from Johnson: “I am meant to be in control. It states that Cummings would tell officials and ministers: “Don’t tell the PM” or “Oh, don’t bother him with this”. It also argues that Cummings increasingly cut Johnson out of the decision-making process in his own government. Dominic Cummings, former chief adviser to Boris Johnson.

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