'For a man caricatured as an evil genius, there is a distinct lack of genius in Dominic Cummings’s evil plan to get rid of the Prime Minister. As MPs congregated in the restaurants and cafés of Parliament on Tuesday, there was a growing consensus that Cummings, having pushed Boris Johnson to the brink, may now have overplayed his hand.
His zealous offer to testify on oath that Johnson ignored warnings about a drinks party in No 10 was meant to be a coup de grâce – but, instead, it appears to have helped shore up the PM’s precarious position.
Because if MPs are forced to choose sides between Cummings and Johnson, there will only ever be one outcome.'