The last WhatsApp message between Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings has been revealed on the COVID Inquiry.
Mr Cummings, who served as Mr Johnson‘s chief aide till November 2020, was giving proof for a number of hours.
Towards the top of the session, one explicit message was delivered to gentle.
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Mr Cummings obtained the message from Mr Johnson on 15 November – two days after the aide left Number 10 for the final time.
Mr Johnson stated: “You speak of briefings from team Carrie.
“She hasn’t briefed anybody and my directions to all have been to close the f*** up. How is any of us purported to know the place these briefings come from?
“Look at the claims made on behalf of allies of Lee [Cain] and Dom, that I’m out in six months, that I can’t take decisions, that Carrie is secretly forging lockdown policy, and about a billion equally demented claims.
“Are you answerable for all that c**p? No. Then have a look at it from my perspective. This is a very disgusting orgy of narcissism by a authorities that ought to be fixing a nationwide disaster.
“We must end this. That’s why I wanted to talk and see what we can jointly do to sterilise the whole thing. But if you really refuse, then that’s up to you.”
It seems that Mr Cummings didn’t reply.
Asked if there was an “orgy of narcissism” within the authorities he was a part of, Mr Cummings stated “certainly”.
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The messages present that Mr Cummings blocked his former boss on WhatsApp in March 2021 – shortly earlier than he appeared in entrance of a committee of MPs for the primary time since leaving Downing Street.
These weren’t the one messages revealed to the inquiry which confirmed Mr Johnson was sad together with his chief aide.
Following the revelation in 2020 that Mr Cummings had travelled to Barnard Castle whereas working in Downing Street, Mr Johnson despatched a message to Number 10 aides in July 2021 which stated: “Cummings a total and utter liar. He never told me he had gone to Durham during lockdown.
“I solely found when the tales began to return out about Barnard Castle and many others. I believed Mary Wakefield when she wrote a bit in spec giving impression they’d been in London the entire time.
“He later claimed that he had told me but that my brain was so fogged by COVID that I didn’t register.
“It’s not true, I’d have famous it.
“He never told me. I then tried my very best to defend him.”
Mr Cummings apologised a number of occasions for the language he utilized in messages launched by the inquiry.
It was revealed at one level how he spoke about Helen MacNamara, who was then head of the propriety and ethics staff within the Cabinet Office.
Mr Cummings stated in a message in 2020: “I don’t care how it’s done but that woman must be out of our hair – we cannot keep dealing with this horrific meltdown of the British state while dodging stilettos from that ****.”
He denied he was misogynistic, saying he was a lot ruder about males then he was “about Helen”.
“I agree that my language is deplorable, but as you can see for yourself I deployed the same or worse language [for] the prime minister, secretary of state or other people.”
As Mr Cummings’ proof session ended, he apologised once more to the inquiry.
Source: information.sky.com”