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Aletha Adu

Boris Johnson told staff 'I'm the f***ing Fuhrer around here', Dominic Cummings claims

Boris Johnson apparently told No10 staff "I'm the f***ing Fuhrer around here", Dominic Cummings has claimed after the PM said he has "learnt his lesson".

The PM's former top advisor claimed the Prime Minister repeatedly said this phrases throughout 2020, when the Covid pandemic swept the nation.

Mr Cummings has been heavily critical of the PM since he departed No10 at the end of 2020, and he was referenced a number of times throughout Sue Gray's investigation into Partygate.

Her investigation states Mr Cummings was warned by then-communications chief Lee Cain alongside BYOB party chief Martin Reynolds that the lockdown bash on May 20 2020 was “somewhat of a comms risk” due to the nation being under strict lockdown rules.

According to the investigation, Mr Cain sent an email to Mr Cummings and Mr Reynolds which said: “I’m sure it will be fine – and I applaud the gesture – but a 200 odd person invitation for drinks in the garden of no 10 is somewhat of a comms risk in the current environment.”

Dominic Cummings, the Prime Minister's former top advisor (Tayfun Salci/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock)

In her full report published on Wednesday, Ms Gray recorded how Boris Johnson ’s then-private secretary Martin Reynolds was warned by then-director of communications Lee Cain of the “rather substantial” risk for No 10 if a leaving event was organised.

However, the event went ahead, with 25 people attending the formal first part of the leaving bash and more joining online by Zoom, according to the 37-page written report.

The Prime Minister’s then-de facto chief of staff Dominic Cummings and Simon Case, the then-permanent secretary for Covid and now Cabinet Secretary, were also in attendance.

The former Vote Leave chief also criticised the Met Police for failing to investigate the PM for every event he attended - when others at them received fines.

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