Dominic Cummings says Boris Johnson offered him a seat in the Lords

Boris Johnson tried to offer Dominic Cummings a seat in the House of Lords, his lockdown-breaker former advisor has claimed.

The Prime Minister's ex-aide has given another interview, this time to the Spectator, and has launched a fresh broadside against his former boss' "chaos".

Mr Cummings said he was offered a peerage and the PM also wanted to get his wife Carrie a job with "lots of foreign travel".

Speaking about his potential elevation as a peer, which Downing Street has denied is true, Mr Cummings said: “He said it but then he almost immediately started laughing and realised that that was not exactly the sort of thing that would buy me off. All reports about me getting big payoffs are all false.”

In relation to his wife Carrie, Mr Cummings said Mr Johnson said: “Omigod, you’re right, she’s driving me crackers. We’ve got to find her a job with lots of foreign travel. Could we get the Cabinet Secretary to give her a job on COP26, travelling round with Kate Middleton?”

Boris and Carrie Johnson at the G7 summit earlier this year (POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

The couple is expected a second baby, after Carrie gave birth to their first son Wilfred last April.

The PM was heavily criticised after he made another of his advisors, Lord Frost, his Brexit negotiator turned Brexit minister, a peer.

Mr Cummings, who dramatically broke lockdown in March 2020 when he travelled to Durham, has given a series of interviews since he left Downing Street last year following a power struggle with other key No 10 players, including the PM's wife.

He has made several criticisms of Mr Johnson's handling of the Covid crisis, including saying that the PM did "not buy" that the NHS would be overwhelmed before the Government ordered a second lockdown.

“I said to him in July, ‘you’re happier to live in chaos than to give me the power to sort it out’,” Mr Cummings has previously recounted.

“And he laughed and said: ‘That’s 100 per cent right. I’m quite happy to live with the chaos because then everyone will stick to the king – which is me.’

“Chaos doesn’t scare him the way it does most people. He thinks it makes everyone powerless against him.”