‘The Government Failed,’ Former Adviser to Boris Johnson Says

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‘The Government Failed,’ Former Adviser to Boris Johnson Says

Dominic Cummings told Parliament that his ex-boss, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, was “unfit for the job” and that government incompetence lead to thousands of excess Covid-19 deaths.

Truth is that senior ministers, senior officials, senior advisers like me fell disastrously short of the standards that the public has a right to expect of its government in a crisis like this. When the public needed us most, the government failed. And I’d like to say to all the families of those who died unnecessarily how sorry I am for the mistakes that were made and for my own mistakes at that. In any sensible, rational government, it is completely crazy that I should have been in such a senior position. In my personal opinion. It’s completely crackers that someone like me should have been in there, just the same as it’s crackers that Boris Johnson was in there, and that the choice of the last election was Jeremy Corbyn. I think there’s a great misunderstanding people have that because it nearly killed him, therefore he must have taken it seriously. But in fact, after the first lockdown, his view was, he was cross with me and others into what he regarded as basically pushing him into the first lockdown. His argument after that happened was literally, quote, I should have been the mayor of ‘Jaws’ and kept the beaches open. By the 31st of October our relations were essentially already finished. The fact that his girlfriend also wanted rid of me was relevant, but not the heart, the heart of the problem. The heart of the problem was, fundamentally, I regarded him as unfit for the job. And I was trying to create a structure around him to try and stop what I thought were extremely bad decisions and push other things through against his wishes. And he had the view that he was prime minister and I should just be doing as he wanted me to. And that’s obviously not sustainable for very long.

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