Dominic Cummings claimed today that he 'screamed' at Boris Johnson while his chief aide in No10 over the Prime Minister's insistence that Government policy should 'follow the bloody media'.
Mr Johnson's former Svengali made the claim in his latest wide-ranging online revelation about life at the heart of the Government.
He used an ask me anything (AMA) session on the Substack website to reveal that he argued repeatedly with Mr Johnson over how to run the Government.
After running the successful Vote Leave and 2019 General Election campaigns on the basis of ignoring the media, Mr Cummings said he ran into huge opposition when he tried to apply the same methodology afterwards.
Mr Cummings, who was forced out of No10 in December, also used the AMA to renew his red-hot feud with Matt Hancock.
Answering a question on social policy, Mr Cummings claimed the Heath Secretary of Hancock just says nonsense things all the time, I would not infer there is some complex moral reasoning going on!'.
But in comments that will likely cause more angst in Downing Street, Mr Cummings was again scathing about the PM.
He wrote that 'almost all' politicians 'are not just clueless, they aren't even trying to figure things out or do things well and many of them are just totally fixated on status games in SW1, not helping people'.
He added: 'Vote Leave won precisely because we did not orient to media but to our best guess of reality - and ditto we won the political game in 2019 for the same reason. But I have had near-zero success in persuading MPs of this!
'I screamed at the PM a few times - you're only in this goddamn office BECAUSE WE DIDN'T FOLLOW THE BLOODY MEDIA WHY CAN'T YOU GET THIS THROUGH YOUR HEAD??!
After running the successful Vote Leave and 2019 General Election campaigns on the basis of ignoring the media, Mr Cummings said he ran into huge opposition when he tried to apply the same methodology afterwards.
In comments that will likely cause more angst in Downing Street, Mr Cummings was again scathing about the PM (pictured today)
'He just looked suspicious like I was trying to trick him into destroying himself and said 'but we gotta keep the Telegraph happy, so tomorrow...'!
'(The PM is a weird case though cos in elections he knows I'm right, he just cannot think like this when existential pressure is off!)
'If ''winning a referendum against all odds'' doesn't persuade people to manage operations differently, it shows just how hard it is to get people to ditch the habits of years.'
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