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In the first instalment of @CamillaTominey's weekly column, she investigates "Brexit bad boy" Dominic Cummings's ignorance and genius

telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/05/0…

🏝️ "For all his undoubted intellectual abilities, Cummings has at times shown Celebrity Love Island levels of stupidity. There have been many mistakes but arguably his most elementary error of all has been picking a fight with Carrie Symonds"

❌ "Aside from his Domvotees, the general consensus in SW1 was that Cummings’s short-lived tenure at No 10 was pretty much an unmitigated disaster...He was about as suited to government as Jean-Claude Juncker is to dry January"

👓 "There was nothing 'genius' about him alienating Spads, civil servants, MPs, ministers and the media during the biggest national emergency in peacetime, while undermining the entire Covid strategy by trying to find a branch of Specsavers somewhere off the A688"

🏉 "I appreciate that the pandemic handed a hospital pass to someone who had clearly never been captain of the school rugby team, but Cummings’s act first, think later strategy was always doomed to failure"

🥾 "Johnson should have put a toe up his backside long before others started putting the boot in. That’s a failure of leadership the Prime Minister will continue to have to live with, since he was the one who naively gave Cummings 'special powers' in the first place"

🧠 Do you think Dominic Cummings is a genius?