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Dominic Cummings is preparing a dossier of evidence that will attempt to blame Boris Johnson personally for tens of thousands of deaths during the second wave of the pandemic thetimes.co.uk/article/domini…

The former advisor is now seeking an urgent parliamentary inquiry into the response to the pandemic

Meanwhile, No 10 aides fear that Cummings has nothing to lose and has enough “kompromat” on Johnson to damage him

Downing Street is prepared for the onslaught, and will mount a defence, saying that the second wave accelerated when the new variant was discovered in December — months after the row over lockdown

Cummings will give evidence on May 26 to the joint investigation of the health and science select committees into the government’s handling of the Covid pandemic

It's believed that it's here he'll present evidence of the Prime Minister's failings

Those close to Boris Johnson fear the treachery of his former chief adviser, accused of “systematic leaking”, has pushed the prime minister over the edge thetimes.co.uk/article/guerri…

According to friends, Cummings had one aim:

To pre-empt a stitch-up by the “establishment” that could land him in prison — an outcome he has privately feared since details emerged of irregular spending during the Brexit referendum

Aids are especially concerned about emails in which the prime minister is allegedly dismissive about the potential death toll from Covid — or quoted as being so.

Others believe Cummings has embarrassing details of his links to Mohammed bin Salman and Dubai's Sheikh Mohammed

Johnson is personally most concerned by the disclosure of details about the refurbishment of his Downing Street flat amid claims it was circuitously funded by a Tory donor

The Electoral Commission is now investigating this

A person who spoke to Johnson last week said the prime minister was “convinced” that his former chief adviser had declared war on him from the moment he left Downing Street in November.

One Downing Street insider said: “After the departure of his closest aides last year, the prime minister has become increasingly isolated and paranoid."

"He has become known in some circles as the King Lear prime minister and we all know how that ended up.”

As for the true source of the leaks, it is claimed that MI5 has managed to trace back the 'leak' texts to a specific phone, owing to that person having two SIM cards

That individual, sources insist, was indeed Dominic Cummings thetimes.co.uk/article/guerri…