Lots of people think Cummings wants to blow everything up. For what it is worth, I think he sincerely believes that a second referendum would lead to much greater civil disorder and damage to the fabric of UK than a no-deal Brexit. He may be wrong, possibly grotesquely...
so. But I talked with him about this long before he joined government. And I am in no doubt this is his conviction. I raise this because we need a rational debate about the costs and benefits of the limited choices we face, before it is too late
Let’s not forget this was @theresa_may’s position throughout her time as prime minister. Until recently it was a mainstream view
A minister points out that the sincerity of the Cummings/Johnson view that no deal would wreak less harm to the UK is undercut every time Johnson denigrates his opponents by using inflammatory Trumpian language like “surrender”
