Dominic Cummings’ interview with Laura Kuenssberg made headlines recently, as Boris Johnson’s former aide spoke about several incidents damaging to the government, including the Prime Minister’s resistance to a second lockdown and his insistence to carry on meeting the Queen…
Dominic Cummings is a name most in Britain are familiar with. The architect of the Vote Leave campaign and dubbed notoriously by David Cameron as a ‘career psychopath’, Cummings is an unorthodox political operative who has strong views on how the UK…
This end of year review is part of a series from Backbench’s editorial team as they consider some of the themes that have dominated 2020. The views expressed in these reviews are those of the editors themselves and do not…
Following a period of chaos and a meltdown at 10 Downing Street, during which Lee Cain and Dominic Cummings jumped ship and Boris Johnson had to go into self-isolation for a second time, the government decided last month to announce…
Dominic Cummings, a government advisor who was dubbed the ‘architect of Brexit’ has often been in the limelight this year. After showing COVID19 symptoms, he drove his family 260-miles to Durham where his extended family lives, implicitly breaking the ‘Stay…
Surely, this is the biggest U-turn of them all? Last week, in a chaotic and delayed address to the nation, Boris Johnson set out England’s plans to be plunged into lockdown number 2, despite weeks of arguing against it in…
‘We do not care about trying to “control the narrative” and all that New Labour junk and this government will not be run by “comms grid”.’ Dominic Cummings wrote that in January 2020, in his infamous ‘weirdos and misfits’ blog…
It’s getting harder by the day to find any meaningful difference between the approach to national governance of Donald Trump and that of Boris Johnson. Johnson seems to be adopting the American Presidents leadership style more and more, and that’s…
On November 8, 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president of the United States. He promised a radical departure from the way his predecessor had dealt with the Great Depression in the form of a ‘New Deal’ – a series…
The scandal of Dominic Cummings’s lockdown journey from London to Durham, and then to the scenic beauty spot of Barnard Castle, has perhaps taken up a disproportionate amount of time in news headlines. Shocking though it is that someone would…