Kemi Badenoch’s Tory Leadership in Jeopardy, Says Dominic Cummings
In a recent interview with Sky News, Dominic Cummings, the former chief adviser to Boris Johnson, made a series of explosive claims about the Conservative Party’s future. According to Cummings, Kemi Badenoch, who won the Tory leadership race last November, will be gone as party leader within a year. He also claimed that there are already plots underway to oust her.
"It’s quite possible the Tories have just, kind of, crossed the event horizon and actually aren’t salvageable," Cummings said. "Like, everyone sort of assumes that because they’ve always been around, then somehow there must be at least one last chance for them to turn things around, but it’s possible that chance is in their past and doesn’t exist. It might be dead."
Cummings, who served as Johnson’s chief adviser from 2019 to 2020, made the remarks in a wide-ranging interview with Sky News. He also revealed that he has held meetings with Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform UK, and advised him on how to go from "one man and an iPhone" to entering Downing Street.
When asked if Farage could become the next prime minister, Cummings replied, "It could definitely happen now, yeah, because the old system’s just so completely broken. If he does what I’m suggesting, and actually sets out a path for how Reform is going to change, how Reform is going to bring in people, how it’s structurally going to alter, what it’s going to build, how it is going to do policy, how it can recruit MPs, etc. If he does that, then there’ll be a huge surge of interest and support into the whole thing."
Cummings also criticised Farage’s personal appeal, saying that it is his party, not him, that has become an outlet for anti-establishment feeling. "It’s not exactly correlated with what people think about Nigel himself," he said. "Reform is a vehicle for people to say: ‘We despise you, Westminster. We hate both the old parties, we hate Whitehall, we hate the old media, we hate the whole f***ing lot of you.’ And Farage going up in the polls is the expression of that core feeling."
The former Downing Street aide also discussed the current state of the Conservative Party, saying that it has been a "one-man band" under Farage’s leadership. "They can win 50, 100, 150 seats with Reform as Nigel and an iPhone," he said. "But they can’t win an overall general election and have a plan for government and have a serious team able to take over in Downing Street and govern and control Whitehall with one man and an iPhone."
Cummings’ comments have sparked a fresh debate about the future of the Conservative Party and the potential rise of Reform UK. As Sky News reports, Cummings’ claims about Badenoch’s leadership have been met with scepticism by some, while others have expressed concerns about the potential impact of Farage’s party on the Tory Party’s vote share.
The interview with Sky News is available to listen to on the Sky News Daily podcast.
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Source: Sky News – Nigel Farage could ‘definitely’ become PM if he listens to me, Dominic Cummings says
