He was once best known for his expansive, rambling blog posts but now Dominic Cummings appears to have a new favourite form of medium. Boris Johnson’s former chief special adviser announced a fortnight ago he was joining paid-for newsletter site Substack, launching his first incendiary post last Wednesday by sharing screenshots in which his former boss called health secretary Matt Hancock ‘hopeless.’
Today the Vote Leave supremo has returned to the site for an ‘ask me anything’ public Q&A session with his army of public subscribers who paid £100 a year for the privilege. Mr S is reading along with the rest of Westminster and will be providing you with a list of the highlights and lowlights from Cummings’s virtual grill-athon.
Global Britain – a ‘crap slogan’
Cummings was asked about the current direction of post-Brexit Britain and his thoughts on the trade deals currently being negotiated. His response was to claim ‘I never thought trade deals much important’ but that MPs did – ‘hence all their Global Britain nonsense, a crap slogan that 5 years later still means nothing.
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