Susan O’Keeffe: Cummings Unplugged had the ring of credibility

The damning testimony of Boris Johnson’s former chief advisor cannot be dismissed as the hyperbole of a man who fell from grace and is hell-bent on revenge

‘Dominic Cummings should not be ignored; that would hasten yet more damage and disintegration to the difficult and imperfect thing that we call democracy.’ Picture: Getty

There is no pleasure in watching the body politic of the UK being ripped into tatters by a bald man in a white shirt who served at the highest level in British politics. Dominic Cummings will go down in history for being the first ever political aide who suggested that he should never have had the job because he “didn’t know enough” and who described his boss, Boris Johnson, as unfit to serve as prime ...