Dominic Cummings to Launch Political Party if Tories Lose Election

Boris Johnson’s former adviser, Dominic Cummings, has promised to launch a political party after what he predicts will be a massive defeat for the Conservatives at the general election. Speaking to the i newspaper he suggested the Conservative Party had outlived its purpose and he said what he called the Start Up Party would be needed, “immediately after the exit polls are live on election night 2024.” He said he wanted to, “divert energy and money away from ‘how to revive the Tories’ to ‘how to replace the Tories.’” In the interview, Mr. Cummings expanded on a Substack blog he wrote back in August 2023 in which he claimed Prime Minister Rishi Sunak had, “no governing plan for the NHS, crime, the war, productivity growth, R&D or anything else, just nightmarish Treasury budget/spending review processes that vandalise long-term building and entrench the dangerous rot of critical national capabilities.”...