"What he's done is demonstrate that he lives in a set of bubbles."
By returning to Durham during lockdown,
#DominicCummings
"has thrown the spotlight on his claim to speak for the northern working class," says
@Johnrashton47
.
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Cummings not going?
Wednesday
#F24Debate
asks about UK's Coronavirus response, leadership in a crisis & why Boris Johnson refuses to part with top advisor caught out for flouting lockdown rules.
Advisors are meant to come and go,
@johnmcternan
tells
#F24Debate
drawing on his experience heading political operations for then-PM Tony Blair.
He adds that Johnson would do better to lean more on the elected Michael Gove than the unelected
#DominicCummings
...
Who's really in charge?
Johnson's been unwell and has a newborn but already at the outbreak of Coronavirus pandemic before he fell ill, PM's absences proved a problem, says
@instituteforgov
's
@cath_haddon
.
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"The honeymoon is over."
@johnmcternan
tells
#F24Debate
that Cummings affair could overshadow Johnson's big plans to invest in northern constituencies that deserted Labour in the last general election...
@FrancoisF24
@Johnrashton47
The wholly-confected Cummings debacle has nothing to do with Coronavirus (why did they sit in it for six weeks?) and everything to do with this: