Dominic Cummings ramped up his attacks on Boris Johnson on the eve of the former aide’s evidence session, accusing the prime minister of having no “serious plan” to protect society’s most vulnerable people from Covid. “One of the worst failings in Feb/March, less discussed than lockdown, was the almost total absence of a serious plan for shielding/social care,” he claimed. Cummings is to allege that, when Johnson rejected the argument for a September lockdown, he claimed “Covid is only killing 80-year-olds”, according to ITV’s political editor Robert Peston. Cummings fell out with Johnson and left Downing Street in November alongside the prime minister’s then director of communications, Lee Cain. No 10 has since accused Cummings of being involved in a series of damaging leaks, something he has denied.

Source: The Guardian May 25, 2021 19:16 UTC