• United Kingdom The war of the 'Tories'

Boris Johnson would never have come this far without the black magic of Dominic Cummings, architect of the victory in the EU referendum with the slogan "Take back control", head of his absolute majority as prime minister with "Get Brexit Done" and scapegoat of the Covid crisis.

Cummings now reappears on the political scene as the "great avenger" of British politics, in an unexpected fourth act worthy of Shakespearean tragedy.

The last thing Johnson needed at this point, reconciled to the British by "the vaccine drive," was to turn his old ally into a close enemy.

And yet here we are, in the first skirmishes of a very

personal war

that is shaking the foundations of Downing Street.

The latest leak, courtesy of 'The Daily Mail', attributes to Johnson a resounding outburst during a meeting with his team: "No more fucking confinements, let the bodies pile up by the thousands" ... The BBC has confirmed the information by a second source, although Johnson himself

maintains that he never went so far as to say that:

"The government's responsibility is to make the lockdowns work."

Whether or not Cummings is behind this latest informational "stab" is unknown, but Johnson's former guru has already anticipated that he is willing to tell the whole truth when he appears, on May 26, before the science and health committee session. of Parliament devoted to the "lessons" of the pandemic.

As anticipated by 'The Sunday Times', Cummings plans to expose the "premier" for his doubts when decreeing the first confinement in March and his refusal to decree then the closure of borders "in the name of Global Britain" .

The former strategist also plans to detail the

late reaction in September

and Johnson's reluctance to the new confinements, despite the virulence of the second wave.

Cummings has in fact called for the opening of an urgent investigation into the actions of the Government during the pandemic, based on an irrefutable fact: despite the success of the vaccination campaign that has already exceeded 50% of the population, the United Kingdom continues being the European country with the most fatalities (more than 127,000).

The recent revelations have indeed reactivated the Covid-19 Afflicted Families group's petitions for Justice, which have condemned Johnson's attitude toward the victims as

"heartbreaking and disrespectful."

The leader of the Labor opposition, Keir Starmer, has decided to take advantage of the situation to attack the "premier" and try to regain lost traction in the polls.

Starmer confessed to being "dumbfounded" by reports of Johnson's alleged words about the "stacked bodies."

"Everyone should be concerned, especially for families who have lost someone to Covid," he declared.

The snowball that began to roll Dominic Cummings is growing for days, and in Downing Street

fear grows

for everything that the 'Rasputin' of British politics can reveal at 49 years, taking into account his proverbial contempt for abiding by the rules. rules (he skipped lockdown himself on that 250-mile family trip from London to Durham that plunged Johnson into the polls).

It's hard to believe at this point that the "casus belli" between the "premier" and his former guru was the leak of the text messages he exchanged with billionaire James Dyson, the king of vacuum cleaners, promising tax breaks for his employees in the manufacture of 10,000 respirators for the Covid emergency. The story caused a

parliamentary uproar,

intensified when the "premier" environment threw an accusing finger at Cummings as the origin of the "tip" to the press.

Cummings defended himself as a cat upside down, claiming that he did not get off his tongue, that the "chatting rat" is still working for Johnson and that he is also friends with his girlfriend, Carrie Symonds (allegedly the adviser Henry Newman).

In a

fit of anger at his former boss,

Cummings wrote a thousand-word blog post to warm up the artillery ...

"Wallpapergate" scandal

"It is sad to see how the Prime Minister's office

has fallen far below the standards of competence

and integrity that the country deserves," wrote the former strategist, who accused Johnson of behaving in "an immoral, crazy and possibly illegal way" .

As a discreet preview of everything that has come after, the guru put on the table the shenanigans behind the controversial redecoration of Downing Street, a small scandal known as the

"Wallpapergate"

and with Carrie as the protagonist. Cummings confirmed that Johnson even raised the possibility of financing the reform (budgeted at 65,000 euros) with money secretly donated by Conservative Party donors: "I told him that I could not help him organize those payments," clarified his former adviser.

In the past, there are those who have wanted to see Cummings' black hand behind the other scandal of the moment: the efforts of former Prime Minister David Cameron to obtain a favorable treatment for his partner, financier Lex Greensill, in the granting of loans and aid by the Covid.

There the umpteenth civil war of the "Tories" began to really take shape, when the wind again blew in its favor.

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