BASHING FOR ‘AMATEUR’ BOJO

The latest attack on Boris Johnson by his former chief adviser Dominic Cummings, this time in a BBC interview, did not surprise veteran political observer Joe haines, who was harold Wilson’s press secretary in the 1970s. haines predicted trouble when Cummings’s attempt to choose Sajid Javid’s political adviser ended in the then Chancellor’s resignation.

‘It exposed the Prime Minister’s amateurish knowledge of how government works; you cannot pit an individual (Cummings), however bright, against an institution (the Treasury) and hope to win. The individual lost.’

Giving Cummings an hour of prime-time Tv to spout his derision of the Prime Minister looks like another BBC blunder. ‘not a smart move when Downing Street is negotiating the new licence fee level,’ an insider says. ‘Oprah Winfrey would have challenged Dom more effectively than Laura Kuenssberg.’