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...On March 12, 2020, Cummings wrote: We got big problems coming....
...Dominic Cummings, former chief adviser to former prime minister Boris Johnson, sent messages to former head of communications Lee Cain complaining Johnson had gone “back to Jaws mode wank” and was “saying...
...“I would say that that entire question was almost entirely appallingly neglected by the entire planning system,” Cummings said....
...Former deputy prime minister Dominic Raab told the inquiry on Wednesday that he did not agree with Javid’s assessment of Cumming’s role....
...“Still no fucking serious testing in care homes his uselessness is still killing God knows how many,” Cummings wrote of Hancock....
...He said the “culture of fear” emanating from Downing Street had “essentially” been created by Cummings, a “malign actor”....
...It has also seen private messages in which Cummings warned Johnson that Hancock’s “incompetence” was “killing” people....
...Cummings was the “most empowered” chief of staff ever to work in Number 10, he added....
...On Tuesday, the inquiry was shown messages in which Cummings vowed to “personally handcuff” MacNamara “and escort her from the building”....
...Cabinet ministers had also been quick to reject the claim, which was first reported in the Daily Mail newspaper and confirmed by Cummings during seven hours of parliamentary testimony in May 2021....
...On August 23, Cummings suggested to his boss that he was “happy to have useless fuckpigs” in the cabinet....
...Last week, the inquiry was shown messages from 2020 in which Cummings warned Johnson that Hancock was “unfit for this job” and had “killed people”....
...The inquiry heard that Gove on March 4 2020 sent a WhatsApp message to Dominic Cummings, then Johnson’s chief adviser, in which he said: “You know me, I don’t often kick off but we’re fucking up as a government...
...The claims included those from Lee Cain, former Downing Street head of communications, who said Johnson had “oscillated” on key decisions, and Dominic Cummings, his former chief adviser, who described him...
...In an extract from his notes from another meeting the same month, Vallance wrote that Dominic Cummings, Johnson’s former chief adviser, suggested in a meeting that Sunak believed it was “OK” to “just let...
...The inquiry was on Tuesday shown messages from 2020 in which Dominic Cummings, Johnson’s former chief adviser, warned that Hancock was “unfit for this job” and had “killed people”....
...The FT’s Laura Hughes is following the inquiry and joins us from there. Hi, Laura. Laura HughesHello....
...Documentary series Laura Kuenssberg: State of Chaos sees the BBC’s former political editor examine “how close our political system [came] to falling apart” since Cameron’s now-infamous tweet....
...Tracy Chevalier mined the household of Vermeer in her bestselling novel Girl with a Pearl Earring, and more recently Laura Cumming wrapped her deeply personal memoir, Thunderclap, around the art and sudden...
...Laura Cumming, who is the chief art critic of the Observer, presents less malignant signs of Stendhal syndrome. In Thunderclap she details her weak-at-the-knees passion for Dutch Golden Age painting....
...David Cumming, head of UK equities at Newton Investment Management, warned that individual investors in particular would lose some safeguards....
...Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life & Sudden Death by Laura Cumming (Chatto & Windus) Carel Fabritius, born 1622, and James Cumming, born 1922, are the painters at the heart of this lustrous meditation...
...The Labour leader highlighted claims by Dominic Cummings, his former chief adviser, that Johnson had been warned in advance that a Number 10 garden party in May 2020 would have been illegal....
...Dominic Cummings, Johnson’s former chief adviser, alleged on Monday that Johnson had lied to parliament about his knowledge of the May 20 2020 Downing Street garden party....
...Dominic Cummings, former chief adviser to the UK prime minister, alleged that a gathering took place on this date in Johnson’s flat at 11 Downing Street on the evening of his departure from government....
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