If Jeremy Hunt didn’t have enough on his hands with post-Budget tensions rising within his own party, he’s now got the wrath of Dominic Cummings to contend with. Not long after the Chancellor announced the Spring budget, Cummings took to Twitter to issue some timely reminders…
If [Boris Johnson] had stuck to the deal…you’d be about to watch Vote Leave massacring NPC-Starmer in an uncompetitive election with [the] UK on a totally different trajectory…instead of farce old Tories disintegrating everything they touch and breaking every promise from 2019 while pissing about with trivia like today.
Ouch.
Signing off with a sting, Cummings added the hashtags ‘#TheStartupParty’ and ‘#DilynsWar’ — in a nod to reports that he used Carrie Symonds’ puppy to fight a proxy war against her when in Downing Street. Not that any grudges remain…
He followed that up with another a tweet hours later, slamming the Prime Minister’s strategy — or lack thereof — and appeared to suggest it wouldn’t take much to push Rishi Sunak out of the party.
Hacks looking for some electoral/‘strategy’/campaign logic.
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