British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, 56, is in distress. Accusations patter down on him from different quarters. His former advisor Dominic Cummings (49) also makes incriminating statements against his former boss on his private blog.
In his private blog, Cummings indirectly accuses Johnson of having funded the renovation of the apartment at 11 Downing Street with party donations. Cost: 230,000 euros. Johnson’s fiancée Carrie Symonds (33) wanted to renovate the apartment in which Prime Minister Theresa May (64) had previously lived with materials from selected interior designers. Johnson says he has now paid for the renovation with his own money.
In October, Johnson reportedly said at an internal meeting that he “doesn’t want a bloody lockdown anymore – the bodies should pile up by the thousands”. Johnson denies such scandalous statements.
A company in which Health Secretary Matt Hancock (42) is involved has been awarded contracts from the national health system, the NHS. It sounds like Vetterliwirtschaft.
Funding from government programs miraculously flows overwhelmingly to counties where Johnson’s Conservative Tories rule.
Johnson “King of the Vacuum Cleaner” assured Dyson tax breaks for his company in the production of ventilators via text message. Johnson texted: “I’ll fix this.”
Who is the mole?
If the official Downing Street line is to be believed, all of these allegations are lies. What is worrying about the whole affair is that private messages from the Prime Minister are repeatedly being made public. On the one hand this is because Johnson communicates on commercial, easily scannable chat services, on the other hand there must be a mole. Johnson’s confidants are convinced: It must be ex-advisor Dominic Cummings.
Cummings immediately rejected the allegations and described Boris Johnson as “incompetent”. Cummings, architect of the Brexit campaign for Great Britain to leave the European Union, had surprisingly left the staff of the British prime minister at the end of last year.
He also accused Johnson of having blocked an internal investigation into a leak in connection with corona measures because the person responsible was a close friend of his fiancée Carrie Symonds.
Cummings testifies
With the rapid vaccination campaign, the past few months were among Johnson’s most successful months in his political career. Now Cummings could suddenly get him into serious trouble. Cummings, who apparently has tape recordings from his consultancy work, wants to give detailed information about Johnson’s corona policy in a month before the responsible committee of the lower house.
Johnson’s opponents of the Labor Party are demanding an investigation and the resignation of the prime minister. The end of the mud fight is far from in sight. (gf)