Worth reading Charles Moore - one former @BorisJohnson boss who is still loyal to him, but without being unaware of his failings. Full of personal and political insights...starting with why he needed #cummings to counteracted the prevarication... 1/

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/11/13/dominic-cummings-goneboris-dangerously-exposed/

..for which “two columns” Johnson is famous and which - if one set of briefings today are correct - ultimately drove Cumming’s and co to distraction/despair. But on that, Moore says, Johnson often uses ambiguity as a shield. /2

Moore had always been alive to Johnson failings, in one piece about a Boris Brexit essay dismissing the “Borisian tosh” - but always aware of his powers to persuade and carry the #brexit charabanc forward. Now he sees others losing faith.../3

But on a clean-break #Brexit Moore sees Johnson ploughing on (and fwiw I have heard same) which is why David Frost and Cummings’s #Brexit eyes and ears Oliver Lewis are staying. /4

But what follows @BorisJohnson will now face without #cummings to prick him into decisions; screw courage to the sticking plate...and in the worst case, Moore can see that could all not go well ENDS