Boris Johnson has said Rishi Sunak is a “stooge” put in place by his former senior adviser Dominic Cummings, according to the former cabinet minister Nadine Dorries.
Johnson said: “I heard that Cummings has said he started to plot to get rid of me in January 2020. The plot was always to get Rishi in. I just couldn’t see it at the time. It’s like this Manchurian candidate, their stooge.”
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Boris Johnson has said Rishi Sunak is a “stooge” put in place by his former senior adviser Dominic Cummings, according to the former cabinet minister Nadine Dorries.
Cummings was sacked by Johnson in late 2020 after a bitter falling-out between the two men.
The former prime minister told Dorries the current government was losing voters in “red wall” seats that had voted for Brexit, where he said people were going back to supporting Labour.
He also criticised Sunak’s decision to raise corporation tax from 19% to 25%, a move first announced in 2021 when he was Johnson’s chancellor.
He suggested cutting the rate to 10%, asking: “Why the hell are we putting up corporation tax in this way?
We don’t have to obey international norms on corporation tax … I’m frustrated.
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