Dominic Cummings’ critics within the Conservative parliamentary party come in four flavours.
There are the committed Brexiteers who oppose him for a combination of personal and political reasons. At a personal level, the likes of Peter Bone, who split with Vote Leave to form Grassroots Out, which sought alongside the likes of Nigel Farage to gain “official” status as the face of the Brexit campaign, have rowed with him in the past. At a political level, MPs like Steve Baker oppose the lockdown on civil and economic libertarian grounds and see Cummings as the face of the policy, while other ideological opponents of the government’s (real or perceived) shift away from conventional Thatcherite economics see a defeat for Cummings as a victory for economic liberalism.
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