Dominic Cummings claims he considered a COUP to get rid of Boris Johnson just weeks after PM's massive 2019 election win because he did not 'have a plan' amid growing influence of Carrie Symonds on her future husband

  • Ex-aide told BBC Boris 'did not have a plan' just weeks after election win in 2019
  • Said he and Vote Leave allies began to clash with Carrie over control of premier
  • Cummings claims PM's wife tried to get rid of him and replace him with 'clowns'Dominic Cummings will tonight claim he plotted to oust Boris Johnson just weeks after his massive 2019 general election win. 

    In an interview with the BBC, due to be broadcast tonight, he said that by the middle of January 2020 - even before Covid struck, the Prime Minister 'did not have a plan' for governing.

    And he admitted that he and the rest of his Vote Leave allies began to clash with the then Carrie Symonds over who controlled the premier. 

    In Dominic Cummings: The Interview, which will be aired at 7pm tonight he accuses the Prime Minister's now wife of also believing he had no plan for government and deciding it should be 'me that's pulling the strings'. 

    He claimed that she tried to get rid of him 'within days' of the vote which handed Boris an 80-seat majority and replace him and his team with 'complete clowns'.

    Mr Cummings - who was Mr Johnson's closest aide before resigning last autumn - said: 'Before even mid-January we were having meetings in Number 10 saying it's clear that Carrie (Johnson) wants rid of all of us. 

    'At that point we were already saying by the summer either we'll all have gone from here or we'll be in the process of trying to get rid of him and get someone else in as Prime Minister.' 

    In an interview with the BBC, due to be broadcast tonight he said that by the middle of January 2020 - even before Covid struck, the Prime Minister 'did not have a plan for governing'.

    In an interview with the BBC, due to be broadcast tonight he said that by the middle of January 2020 - even before Covid struck, the Prime Minister 'did not have a plan for governing'.

    And he admitted that he and the rest of his Vote Leave allies began to clash with the then Carrie Symonds over who controlled the premier.
    And he admitted that he and the rest of his Vote Leave allies began to clash with the then Carrie Symonds over who controlled the premier. 
    He added: '(Mr Johnson) doesn't have a plan, he doesn't know how to be Prime Minister and we only got him in there because we had to solve a certain problem not because he was the right person to be running the country.'

    The revelation is the latest broadside from Mr Cummings, who has repeatedly bitten the hand that once fed him since he was axed last year. 

    In the interview he will also accuse Mr Johnson pf trying to avoid a second lockdown last year by joking that it would only kill the over 80s who were expendable.

    Mr Cummings also alleged he had to talk the PM out of visiting the Queen early in the pandemic by pointing out he could kill her if he was infected.

    The former advisor, who was sacked at the end of last year, shared WhatsApp messages with the BBC as he alleged the Prime Minister was reluctant to heighten restrictions because 'the people who are dying are essentially all over 80' and therefore expendable.

    In his first broadcast interview, with the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg, the hostile former chief adviser to Mr Johnson accused his one-time boss of putting 'his own political interests ahead of people's lives'.

    But it is the resumption of his war with Mrs Johnson that will raise most eyebrows. He quit No10 in December after losing a power battle with the PM's third wife. 

    Last month he used a Substack newsletter to describe them as like a 'demonic Russian virus' when together last year and described their relationship as 'weird' when he joined No10.

    In his first TV interview since leaving No 10, Mr Cummings claimed the PM 'put his own political interests ahead of people's lives for sure'.

    He said Mr Johnson's attitude last autumn was a 'weird mix' of 'partly 'it's all nonsense and lockdowns don't work anyway' and partly 'well this is terrible but the people who are dying are essentially all over 80 and we can't kill the economy just because of people dying over 80'.'

    He added: 'Lots of people heard the Prime Minister say that, the Prime Minister texted that to me and other people.'

    Cummings:  Anyone 100% sure Brexit will be a success has a screw loose 

    Dominic Cummings used the interview to warn against Brexit  tribalism, saying only history could tell if it would be a success.

    The architect of the successful Vote leave campaign - which included Mr Johnson and Michael Gove - said one of the reasons for its success was that it did not regard its opponents as 'idiots or traitors'. 

    He said: 'We never thought like that then and still don't and ... I think it's perfectly reasonable to say Brexit was a mistake and the little, the history will, will, will prove that, of course it's reasonable for some people to, to think that.

    'I can be confident on judgements like, is so and so up for the job or is so and so er, extremely able or extremely rubbish. Those sort of things I think I've shown good judgement on over the last few years. But questions like is Brexit a good idea? No-one on earth knows if that's, what the answer to that is.

    'I think that obviously I think Brexit was a good thing… I think that the way in which the world has worked out since 2016 vindicates the arguments that Vote Leave made in all sorts of ways. I think it's good that, that Brexit happened.'

     And he admitted that the notorious red bus with a promise of £350million for the NHS after leaving was a 'deliberate trap' for the Remain campaign.

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