Former top aide admits plotting to oust Johnson from office

RT.com, 21 July, 2021- Describing Boris Johnson being PM as “terrible for the country,” Dominic Cummings has revealed that he and other Downing Street aides had plotted to oust him from office just weeks after their landslide December 2019 election win.

In his first TV interview since resigning as the PM’s chief adviser last year, Cummings directed a series of criticisms at Johnson, who he claimed “doesn’t have a plan” to run the country, “doesn’t know how to be prime minister” and was obsessed with “stupid” projects in transport and infrastructure.

During the hour-long programme, which aired Tuesday night on the BBC, Cummings admitted that he’d been looking to “hasten” the PM’s exit from Downing Street.  He claimed to have known about Johnson’s “hopeless” qualities after they’d worked together on the ‹Vote Leave› campaign during the 2016 Brexit referendum. But Cummings worked to get him elected to power three years later only “because we had to solve a certain problem, not because he was the right person to be running the country.”