Dominic Cummings left 10 Downing Street Friday afternoon. With a cardboard box in his hands, Boris Johnson’s famous top advisor left the iconic door. The Financial Times reported that he was going to quit before Christmas, but Johnson sent him out on Friday afternoon, after he had received whatsapp messages that would damage his future wife Carrie Symonds. As the mastermind of the referendum campaign and the victory at the Brexit election a year ago, Cummings had a lot of credit. Conservative MPs, however, have always considered the Brexit strategist to be a Trojan horse. It was up to Cummings to bring the Brexit to a successful conclusion, and he had already suggested at the beginning of this year that he would only stay a year. He brought not only his confidants to Downing Street, but also an iron discipline and focus. Opposition was not tolerated by the Mad Mullahs, as his followers were called. This approach works well in a campaign, but not in the CIVID-19 pandemic that suddenly broke out. Government turned out to be harder than campaigning. Britain’s Coronation policy was characterised by misjudgments, empty slogans, dubious models and nepotism in procurement. In addition, Cummings undermined his … Continue reading Dominic Cummings left the Downing Street