Cummings: Boris Johnson on Downing Street as prime minister is a fool

Dominic Cummings, his former top adviser Boris Johnson, apologizes to British Parliament committee over mistakes made by British government in the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic saying that ministers and government officials betrayed the confidence of the British, reports APE.

Dominic Cummings, who warned that he had data and text messages on WhatsApp to support his claims, said that Boris Johnson did not consider the disease a major risk. He described it as a “scary bird flu-like tale” a month before Britain’s first lockdown was imposed and offered to become infected with the virus live on television to prove there was nothing to fear at a time when ministers He was on a ski vacation and the government failed miserably in the early stages of the Covid-19 epidemic, which Boris Johnson called “kung flu”.

“The truth is that top ministers, high-ranking officials, top advisers like me, did not live up to the demands that the public is entitled to have from their government in a crisis like this,” he told a British parliamentary committee. for managing the health crisis and for the lessons to be learned from the performance of the Johnson administration.

“At a time when our people needed us more, the government failed,” he said.

The former Downing Street adviser revealed that neither he nor Boris Johnson attended Cobra committee meetings in the early stages of the epidemic, saying the meetings were often nothing more than PowerPoint presentations and that there were many leaks.

“I would 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,” he said.

Six months after leaving Downing Street due to factional strife, the architect of 2016’s winning Brexit campaign and the overwhelming 2019 election victory of Boris Johnson now appears ruthless against the British prime minister.