Boris Johnson calls The Telegraph his ‘real boss’, claims Dominic Cummings
“No-one on Earth” knows whether Brexit was a good idea for Britain, the driving force behind the Vote Leave campaign has admitted.
Dominic Cummings, who went on to mastermind Boris Johnson’s election victory on a “get Brexit done” platform, said that he personally regards EU withdrawal as “a good thing” but admitted it could have been “a mistake”.
The former top aide revealed his thoughts on the EU referendum in an explosive interview by the PM’s former top adviser with the BBC’s political editor Laura Kuenssberg, which aired on BBC Two at 7pm this evening.
He also said he discussed removing the prime minister from his role only weeks after the 2019 election and revealed lockdown-sceptic WhatsApp messages sent to him by Mr Johnson last autumn. The messages resembled ideas in a fringe anti-lockdown opinion piece published in the Telegraph newspaper a few days earlier.
All the claims revealed in leaked messages were made virtually word-for-word in a comment piece published just a few days before in the 11 October edition of the newspaper – which until recently paid Mr Johnson £275,000 a year.
Critics have accused the prime minister of “believing everything he reads in the paper”.
