November 13, 2020 10:18 AM
The power clash between factions within the premier’s entourage has already led to the resignation of the government’s communications director, Lee Cain, probably wanted by the prime minister’s companion Carie Symonds
“Dominic will jump out of Downing Street before he is forced to do so,” another source well introduced to the dynamics of the power structure surrounding the prime minister confirmed to the British public broadcaster.
While Cummings himself, in an interview with the political editor of Bbc, Laura Kuenssberg, has denied as “fabricated” the rumors that he threatened to resign in response to those that had been forced to Lee Cain; but he also recalled what he wrote on his blog in January: when he made it known that he wanted to return your “fundamentally superfluous” role for the end of 2020.
According to the media, the announced farewell of the 48-year-old Cummings is not only the consequence of the tug-of-war with Carie Symonds, companion of the premier and former head of communications of the Conservative Party in the past, on who should have the decisive influence on Johnson, but also of a changed attitude of the premier: who, according to the many anonymous deep throats, after having also defended him from the accusations of the violation of the rules of the anti-Covid lockdown in the spring, he would have been convinced by now that he could only derive damage in this phase of emergency from his excessively divisive attitude.
With Cummings, the bulk of the voting Leave platform veteran clan should lose weight, the engine of the victorious campaign for farewell to the EU of which Dominiic was the sulphurous strategist (and Johnson the standard-bearer) at the time of Brexit referendum over 4 years ago.
The story continues to generate discontent in one part of the Tory group in Parliament, where even the indiscretions that in the end it could be the same prime minister take their breath away: especially if in the coming months the crisis linked to the coronavirus and the post-Brexit were to become a tsunami and if the Conservative Party were to face a scoppola at the round of local elections in May 2021 which will see the renewal of key seats such as that of Mayor of London.
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