Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson’s former right-hand man, is planning to launch a new right-leaning political party to rival what he calls the “rotten Tory [Conservative] horrorshow”.
Cummings – no stranger to controversy – argues British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has effectively given up governing the country, squandered the Conservative Party’s 80-seat majority in the House of Commons, and has “no message, no political strategy worth spit and no grip on power.”
The new party’s policies would include being tougher on crime, security, and immigration, reducing taxes for working people, slashing the size of the British welfare state, closing loopholes that benefit the wealthy, and renouncing the European Convention on Human Rights.
“The goal is to win in 2028, govern for two terms and then self-destruct as a legal entity, so the project is credibly hardwired to be fundamentally different to a normal party,” Cummings stated, adding that he has already begun discussing the launch with sitting Members of Parliament and donors.
Cummings is perhaps best known for his role in the “Vote Leave” campaign during the 2018 Brexit Referendum and then featuring as Boris Johnson’s Chief Advisor between 2019 and 2020. He was eventually forced out of his position by Johnson’s meddlesome wife, Carrie Symonds.
