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🚨 BREAKING: Dominic Cummings has claimed Boris Johnson knew he was not involved in leaking lockdown plans from Downing Street

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🗣️In an extraordinary diatribe released on his blog, Mr Cummings said Mr Johnson had fallen "so far below the standards of competence and integrity the country deserves"

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Dominic Cummings denies a series of claims made by No10 officials:

🔴That he leaked details of the second lockdown

🔴That he leaked texts between the PM and James Dyson

🔴That he told journalists about the PM's plans to renovate his flat and ask Tory donors to pay for it.

🗣️Mr Cummings denies all these accusations and has offered his own version of events.

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🔴 The Boris Johnson/James Dyson texts.

📌In his blog Mr Cummings says he "was not directly or indirectly a/the source for the BBC/Kuenssberg story on the PM/Dyson texts".

📌"I am happy to meet with the Cabinet Secretary and for him to search my phone for Dyson messages"

🔴The 'chatty rat' inquiry into the lockdown leak.

📌In his blog, Cummings says the Cabinet Secretary concluded that he had nothing to do with the leaks, and had told the PM that he believed the leaker was Henry Newman, an adviser and close friend of Carrie Symonds

🔴 The Downing Street refurb

📌Dominic Cummings says he knew little about the renovation because he had already told Mr Johnson he thought the plan to ask donors to pay for it was wrong.

📌 Mr Cummings said: "The PM stopped speaking to me about this matter in 2020 as I told him I thought his plans to have donors secretly pay for the renovation were unethical, foolish, possibly illegal"

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🔴 A No 10 spokesman has responded to several of Cummings' claims from his bombshell blog.

📌On the No11 flat, they said:
“At all times, the Government and Ministers have acted in accordance with the appropriate codes of conduct and electoral law."

🗣️The spokesman continued: “All reportable donations are transparently declared and published – either by the Electoral Commission or the House of Commons registrar"

“Benefits received in a ministerial capacity are, and will continue to be, declared in transparency returns.”

🔴 On the suggestion that Mr Johnson tried to stop a leak inquiry that was likely to implicate Carrie Symonds' friend Henry Newman, the No10 spokesman said:

📌 “The PM has never interfered in a government leak inquiry.”

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