UK Dominic Cummings and Boris Johnson go to war
Dominic Cummings has reopened the box of thunder against Boris Johnson.
The former aide to the
premier
launched a cascade of accusations over the weekend, in anticipation of his appearance in Westminster on May 26, when he plans to reveal the "shocking truth" about the failed strategy in the face of the pandemic that has claimed more than 128,000 fatalities in the UK.
In a series of explosive posts on Twitter, Cummings blames Johnson for initially seeking "group immunity."
"In the week of March 9 (2020), Downing Street was warned that this strategy could lead to disaster and cause the death of hundreds of thousands of people," says Johnson's former strategist and architect of the Brexit victory. .
"It was at that moment when Plan B was launched
,
"
Cummings emphasizes, referring to the first lockdown that was finally implemented on March 23.
As he is prepared to testify on Wednesday before a parliamentary committee, "group immunity until September" was the slogan that was in effect for several weeks.
His statements will bring to the fore the government's scientific adviser, Patrick Wallace, who on March 13 hinted that "group immunity" was one of the objectives.
Two days later, Health Secretary Matt Hancock amended the report for the media and declared that group immunity was "neither a goal, nor a strategy."
In his flurry of
tweets
, launched on Saturday night, Cummings accuses Hancock of spreading "lies" about preparing for the health crisis and confirms that he pressured Boris Johnson several times to promote the resignation of the Secretary of Health, on the rope loose until achieving his particular redemption (and that of the
premier
) with the recent success of the vaccination campaign.
Cummings maintains that the second and third lockdowns could have been avoided
"if there had been someone competent at the helm."
The
Rasputin
of Boris ,
which caused a national furor with his family trip 400km from London to Durham during the first ensures confinamiento- that he and scientific advisers recommended a "short circuit" in the areas most affected northern England in September , but that the
premier
resisted until he was forced to impose the second "bolt" in November.
Internal government sources, quoted by
The Sunday Times
, acknowledged their concern over Cummings' personal accusations against Johnson for his disdain in the run-up to the crisis and his five notorious absences from as many Cobra emergency cabinets. The former strategist may argue that the
premier
was busy writing his long-delayed biography of Shakespeare, driven by the need to pay for the divorce from his second wife, Marina Wheeler.
Cummings also attacked in his
tweets
against "the incompetence of the media" and refuted the widespread belief until now that it was precisely he who resisted the confinements. "Obviously, they were destructive," writes Torus Past. "But it was what had to be done, because the alternative was hundreds of thousands of people drowning to death and many others deprived of public health for months."
The former strategist, who left the back door of Downing Street in November,
also lashes out at "the particularly horrible process" of testing the Covid
among the population: "If the tests had been implemented before in a massive way, possibly we would have avoided each other. the last two confinements until the arrival of the vaccines ".
Downing Street has responded briefly to Cummings' allegations by claiming, through a spokesperson, that "group immunity has never been an objective or part of our strategy against the coronavirus."
The aforementioned spokesperson stressed that the goal has been and continues to be "to save lives and avoid saturation of the National Health System."
Cummings has promised to make available to the Parliamentary Committee on Science and Health documentation to support his testimony, although the Official Secrets Act prevents him from making "classified material" public.
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