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13 October 2021

How Dominic Cummings has given the EU the perfect excuse for Brexit rage

Cummings’s claim that Boris Johnson always intended to renege on the Northern Ireland protocol is timed to cause maximum damage.

By Tim Ross

Dominic Cummings rarely misses a chance to start a fire, especially if Boris Johnson is available for kindling.

His latest Twitter outpouring of verbal accelerant, timed as always to generate maximum temperatures, involved claiming that Johnson did not understand the Brexit deal he agreed with the EU two years ago, and that he never intended to stick to it anyway.

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