David Cameron attacks ‘career psychopath’ Dominic Cummings

There must be an election in the offing because the PM was out and about last night looking for a manifesto. He addressed Policy Exchange’s (PX) annual summer bash in Westminster College Gardens. It was a gag a minute. He cracked rotten jokes about pig semen, and claimed that he was one of the founders of PX — adding that he only sat around eating pizza while the brainboxes came up with ideas which he then stole. How the people stared.

He thanked Policy Exchange for providing his government with most of its backroom brains and spinners. Comedy Dave joked the path from ‘policy wonk, to special advisor, to career psychopath’ was well trodden — an attack on Gove’s ex-advisor Dominic Cummings no doubt — before quickly pointing out Cummings hadn’t even been a PX man. Then he began to heap praise on Cummings’s old boss, the ‘brilliant’ and ‘radical’ Michael Gove (another PX founder), which points to the Education Secretary’s rehabilitation after recent storms and rows.