Dominic Cummings’s intervention within the row over cronyism in Boris Johnson’s authorities has left Downing Road officers “extraordinarily nervous” of additional revelations.
The prime minister’s former chief aide has provided to offer proof subsequent month beneath oath and disclose emails and texts to a parliamentary inquiry into the dealing with of the Covid disaster.
In his weblog submit on Friday denying No 10’s claims that he was the supply of leaks to the media, Mr Cummings additionally referred to “WhatsApp messages with very senior officers”.
Insiders have now informed the Sunday Telegraph that they concern Mr Cummings might have a “treasure trove” of inside memos and emails which might injury the repute of the federal government even additional.
“Apparently he has obtained a great deal of stuff,” mentioned one supply. “Nobody has an actual clue about what paperwork, emails and texts he really has. They do not know how a lot he has, nor what he has.”
A second authorities supply is alleged to have informed the newspaper that Mr Cummings “used to scribble so much in that ebook”, including: “I do not know what he has obtained, what he has not obtained.”
One other mentioned that these inside No10 have been “s******* themselves”.
In accordance with the Telegraph, officers are involved that the paperwork would reveal Mr Johnson and Rishi Sunak’s sturdy opposition to the second lockdown.
Mr Cummings is because of give proof to MPs on a joint parliamentary committee inquiry into the federal government’s pandemic response on 26 Might.
Jeremy Hunt, one of many joint chairs, informed the Telegraph that they “will publish no matter he provides us” until it raises nationwide safety points.
In his blogpost Mr Cummings accused Boris Johnson of an “unethical, silly, presumably unlawful” plan to get Tory donors to secretly fund the lavish refurbishment of his Downing Road flat.
He denied that he was the supply of leaks concerning the authorities’s plans for a second lockdown, as a substitute pointing the finger at Henry Newman, an advisor with shut hyperlinks to Cupboard Workplace secretary Michael Gove and Mr Johnson’s fiancee Carrie Symonds.
Mr Cummings claimed that the prime minister tried to dam the inquiry into the supply of that leak for concern it will upset his girlfriend.
He additionally rejected claims he was the supply of leaks concerning the texts between Mr Johnson and James Dyson, the UK’s richest particular person, about tax points.
On Saturday Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon mentioned there was a “stench of sleaze” across the authorities and known as for an inquiry into allegations of “contracts for cronies, donations for adorning and textual content messages for tax breaks”.
Labour’s shadow cupboard workplace minister Rachel Reeves has written to Mr Johnson demanding a “full investigation”.