It was Dominic Cummings’s contempt for Boris Johnson, and the Prime Minister’s blithe disregard for the Queen’s health, that made headlines following his interview with Laura Kuenssberg, the BBC’s political editor, this week. Personally, I found what he had to say about the 2016 Brexit referendum to be equally shocking.
First, Cummings admitted he had doubts about Brexit. Asked if he still thought leaving the European Union was a good idea, the chief architect of Vote Leave’s victory replied: “No one on earth knows what the answer is… Anyone who says they are sure about questions like that has a screw loose whether on the Remain side or our side. One of the reasons why we won is precisely because in Vote Leave we didn’t think that we were definitely right and Remainers are all idiots or traitors or anything else. We never thought like that and still don’t and I don’t now. I think it’s perfectly reasonable to say ‘Brexit was a mistake and history will prove that’.”
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