The answer from the government’s chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance on Dominic Cummings was actually entirely sensible, if not the one the svengali’s critics… Read More »PM’s brute effort to save Dominic Cummings appears to have succeeded

Boris Johnson has been accused of “Trumpesque” behaviour after intervening to stop the government’s top experts from answering questions about Dominic Cummings.

Dominic Cummings has long been the talk of the political club in Westminster, fascinated by this Rasputin-like figure and devastatingly effective campaigner at the centre… Read More »Saving his Rasputin has cost Tsar Boris the public trust

Boris Johnson is announcing his second major review of coronavirus lockdown rules, 66 days after he introduced them in late March.

Dominic Cummings appears to have edited a year-old blog post to add a mention of coronavirus on his first day back at work after recovering… Read More »Doubt over Cummings’s claim he warned of coronavirus threat last year

Boris Johnson is facing more potentially awkward questions about his refusal to sack Dominic Cummings in a 90-minute interrogation by senior MPs.