Sunak sought a “secret pact” with Boris Johnson’s former super-adviser to help him

The British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunakheld meetings to seek a “secret pact” with his predecessor’s former super advisor Boris Johnson and brain of the campaign for Brexit, Dominic Cummingsso that this would help him win the next elections.

The Sunday’Sunday schedules‘ revealed this Sunday that Sunak met twice with Cummings, who in exchange for his help asked for radical reforms in his government, something the Chief Executive refused.

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The role of Dominic Cummings -first as right arm Boris Johnson and then, after being fired Downing Street in November 2020, as its greatest scourge – it is one of the most controversial in British politics.

A photograph released by the UK Parliament shows British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaking during the weekly Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQ) session in the House of Commons in London on May 10, 2023. (Photo by Jessica TAYLOR/ UNITED KINGDOM PARLIAMENT / AFP ) (JESSICA TAYLOR/)

He is considered the great promoter of the vote to leave the European Union in the 2016 referendum and the landslide victory of the “conservatives” in the 2019 elections, but at the same time he was described as a conspirator who tried to govern the UK from the shadow protected by Johnson.

Furthermore, he was the protagonist of one of the biggest scandals of the pandemic by violating confinement to take his family to his parents’ house, in the north of the country. England.

The Prime Minister’s office has acknowledged that Sunak secretly met with him on two occasions, December 2022 and July 2023, but denies he was offered a role.

“He (Sunak) wanted a secret deal that would get him elected and promised that he would take the government seriously after being elected. But I’d rather the Conservatives lose than stay in power without prioritizing what’s important and voters.Cummings told the Sunday Times.

According to the consultant, who regularly attacks Johnson and the Conservative Party from your blog, ‘conservatives’ would rather lose than govern seriously.

The then British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, leaves 10 Downing Street, in central London, on July 6, 2022. (Photo by Daniel LEAL / AFP) (DANIEL LEAL/)

Cummings offered to advise Sunak in return for him launching a radical tax cut, solving public health problems, improving nuclear weapons infrastructure, preparing the country for future pandemics and artificial intelligence, and fixing the “broken government institutions”.

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I also wanted him to commit to defending the country’s exit from European Convention on Human Rights.

The Labor opposition criticized the revelations and accused Sunak of having been “no ideas” and try to trust “the ghosts of the tory past”.

“The disconnected Rishi Sunak You are asking the wrong question if you believe that the architect of the breach of lockdown rules, in Boris Johnson’s failed mandate, is the appropriate response.,” said Labor MP Jonathan Ashworth.

Source: Elcomercio