I read a good article earlier today. This isn't about Cummings anymore and perhaps it never was. It's about why Cummings matters so much to Boris and why the Cabinet matters so little. What this ****storm demonstrates perfectly is the power of Cummings (which tbf we already suspected) but importantly his power in contrast to the weakness of cabinet ministers. This Prime Minister has no one in Cabinet or elsewhere he trusts and needs in the way he trusts and needs Cummings.
Consider for a moment, an aide giving his own press conference in the garden at Downing Street and a couple of hours later a Prime Minister actually telling journalists 'these points have already been answered by the aide'. A Prime Minister deferring his responsibility in subservience to an unelected official. Couple that with the fact Cabinet ministers were ordered out like second rate lackeys to dispense barely credible justifications of an aide's actions.
Boris knows there's a financial/economic nightmare coming. He knows he won't be able to cope with the fallout from that without Cummings because there isn't anyone who he really trusts enough or has faith in other than Cummings to get him through it.
Consider for a moment, an aide giving his own press conference in the garden at Downing Street and a couple of hours later a Prime Minister actually telling journalists 'these points have already been answered by the aide'. A Prime Minister deferring his responsibility in subservience to an unelected official. Couple that with the fact Cabinet ministers were ordered out like second rate lackeys to dispense barely credible justifications of an aide's actions.
Boris knows there's a financial/economic nightmare coming. He knows he won't be able to cope with the fallout from that without Cummings because there isn't anyone who he really trusts enough or has faith in other than Cummings to get him through it.
but as you "said" it is sometimes difficult to "read" a posts intent .
