Dominic Cummings set to create new party to take power in 2028
Dominic Cummings set to create new party to replace the ‘rotten Tory horrorshow’ and aims to take power in 2028
- Boris Johnson’s former Chief Adviser believes Sunak will lose the next election
- In 2020 Cummings attracted national contempt for breaking lockdown rules
Dominic Cummings is set to create a new party to take power in 2028 – in order to replace what he called the ‘rotten Tory horror show’.
Boris Johnson’s former Chief Adviser, 51, wants to launch the party – which he is temporarily referring to as The Startup Party – by Christmas.
In a series of blogs posted on his online Substack, Cummings said it was ‘time to build up a start up to replace the rotten Tories and win in 2028’.
Although he praised the Prime Minister as having the ‘highest IQ’ in Parliament, he said he’d ‘effectively given up’ leading the country and had ‘wasted’ the Tories’ 80-seat majority from 2019.
The former head of the Vote Leave campaign said he believed Rishi Sunak would lose the next election – and the subsequent ‘failures’ of Labour Party leader Keir Starmer would leave open a ‘huge opportunity’ for someone to take power in 2028.
Dominic Cummings is set to create a new party to take power in 2028 – in order to replace what he called the ‘rotten Tory horror show’
The former head of the Vote Leave campaign said he believed Rishi Sunak (pictured on September 6) would lose the next election
Cummings wrote: ‘Already I’m getting messages from MPs and donors “How do we rebuild the Party after the inevitable, can we have a quiet chat?”
‘NO NO NO. No more excruciating Tory dinners. No more ‘X is obviously not up to it but … maybe … we could build a team around them, oh god pass the red…’
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‘NO. Plough the old Tory Party into the earth with salt. I prefer the calls that start, “Come on, it’s time for the startup party let’s go”.
He continued: ‘This is the time to start building the replacement so that from 2200 on election night in October-December 2024 the old Party is buried and a new set of people with new ideas start talking to the country and can take over in 2028 and give voters the sort of government they want and deserve.’
In terms of policies for his new party, Cummings outlined being tougher on crime and illegal immigration and pledged to pull out of the European Convention on Human Rights.
In addition, Cummings said he would freeze taxes for workers and would link MPs’ salaries to median incomes.
He said he wants ‘new people, new ideas and new machines’ – hoping for most of those involved to not have a background in Westminster. Instead he hopes to recruit those from small businesses and with knowledge of technology.
When Mr Cummings entered No 10 in 2019, he was best known for his role masterminding the Vote Leave campaign during the 2016 EU referendum and coming up with the ‘Take Back Control’ slogan.
But following the election of Mr Johnson, he became the most high-profile and notorious adviser since the Blair years.
Following the election of Mr Johnson (pictured on September 8), Cummings became the most high-profile and notorious adviser since the Blair years
Mr Cummings attracted national outrage when he broke lockdown rules by travelling with his wife and child from London to County Durham when he had Covid.
He was forced into doing a humiliating press conference in the Downing Street Rose Garden, when he tried in vain to fend off bruising questions from the media.
He claimed then to have driven his family 30 miles to beauty spot Barnard Castle to check his eyesight.
Regarding his new plan, an ally of Cummings told The Times: ‘If anyone can do it, he can.’
But a Tory critic said: ‘(The plan is) yet more mad ramblings from a narcissistic egomaniac who is thankfully becoming increasingly irrelevant.’
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