How will Dominic Cummings strike next after ‘f***ing hopeless’ bombshell?

Former adviser offers evidence that PM had doubts about Matt Hancock

Dominic Cummings
Dominic Cummings is Johnson’s senior adviser
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Dominic Cummings dropped another “Dom bomb” yesterday in the form of a message in which Boris Johnson appears to call Health Secretary Matt Hancock “totally f***ing hopeless”.

The former No. 10 aide published a series of “incendiary revelations” on the Substack blogging platform and in a 92-post Twitter thread “just minutes” before Prime Minister’s Questions, says the Daily Mail. Cummings backed up his claims with screenshots of WhatsApp messages and pictures of whiteboards in the PM’s study.

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