Factbox-Mistakes, secrecy, no preparation: ex-aide attacks Johnson on COVID


  • World
  • Wednesday, 26 May 2021

FILE PHOTO: Former special advisor to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Dominic Cummings, looks on outside of his house, in London, Britain, May 4, 2021. REUTERS/Toby Melville

LONDON (Reuters) -Dominic Cummings, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's chief adviser until late last year, accused his former boss on Wednesday of being unfit for office and of failing Britain by allowing tens of thousands to die "unnecessarily" of COVID-19.

Since leaving his job, Cummings has become one of Johnson's most vocal critics, calling his leadership in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic last year "catastrophic".

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