Inside Matt Hancock and Dominic Cummings' feud trends now
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Matt Hancock has revealed details of his extraordinary feud with Dominic Cummings – accusing the former No 10 adviser of 'total idiocy' in the early days of the pandemic.
Going public with a series of searing accusations, the former health secretary paints Boris Johnson's ex-chief of staff as a menace who used petty tactics to frustrate the Covid effort.
In his pandemic diaries, which are being serialised on Mail+ from today and in tomorrow's Daily Mail, Mr Hancock claimed he was forced to fight against hostile briefings and office power moves even as the virus threatened to overwhelm the NHS.
He says Mr Cummings had 'complete contempt for elected politicians - the Prime Minister included', and that it was 'astonishing that Boris gives so much power to Cummings'.
Matt Hancock has revealed details of his extraordinary feud with Dominic Cummings – accusing the former No 10 adviser of 'total idiocy' in the early days of the pandemic
The animosity towards his former colleague is a thread running through Mr Hancock's diaries, right up until Mr Cummings's shock departure from No 10 in November 2020.
It comes after Mr Cummings targeted Mr Hancock in his 'Domshells' - his shocking claims about how the pandemic was handled in Downing Street - saying the former health secretary 'should have been fired for at least 15 to 20 things' for his 'criminal, disgraceful behaviour'.
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
