Dominic Cummings says ousting Boris is an ‘unpleasant duty’ like ‘fixing a drain’

The PM’s former right-hand man branded his old boss a ‘complete f***wit’ (Picture: Rex/Getty)

Dominic Cummings has branded Boris Johnson a ‘complete f***wit’ and compared the campaign to oust him to ‘fixing the drains’.

The former Downing Street aide, who was once Mr Johnson’s right-hand man, said removing him from office was an ‘unpleasant but necessary job’.

In an explosive and rare interview about his time in Number 10 with New York Magazine, he said the prime minister saw himself as ‘the f***ing king’ and was obsessed with media coverage.

Mr Cummings told the magazine: ‘In January 2020, I was sitting in No. 10 with Boris and the complete fuckwit is just babbling on about: “Will Big Ben bong for Brexit on the 31st of January?”

‘He goes on and on about this day after day. Eventually I say to him: “Who cares?”

‘We won the election a few weeks ago. We have an eighty-seat majority. You are literally only in this study because for six months we actually had a plan that focused on the country, not on the stupid media.’

He claimed his old boss thinks in terms of ‘what a Roman emperor would do’ and fantasises about building ‘monuments’ to his leadership such as infrastructure projects.

After pushing him to tackle long-term policy issues like ‘skills, schools and NHS management’, Mr Cummings said Mr Johnson ‘looked at me as if I was completely insane’.

Mr Johnson was said to have obsessed over the timing of Big Ben’s ‘bong’ (Picture: Reuters/PAwire)

Mr Cummings recently gave evidence to civil servant Sue Gray’s investigation into alleged lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street, which has fuelled a rebellion close to toppling the PM’s leadership.

Earlier this month he suggested evidence was being kept from the inquiry because staff feared Mr Johnson would eventually see it.

The 50-year-old, who resigned after losing a power struggle with Carrie Johnson, suggested the chaos in No 10 was down to Mr Johnson ‘[treating] the place like his own.

Later in the interview, he added: ‘You know, as he said to me, “I’m the f***ing king around here and I’m going to do what I want.’”

‘That’s not okay. He’s not the king. He can’t do what he wants. Once you realize someone is operating like that then your duty is to get rid of them, not to just prop them up.’

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