So, how likely are you to vote for something called a Start-up Party? Thought not. A Start-up Party founded by Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson’s former Svengali? Don’t be rude. But how about a party focused on reducing immigration, closing tax loopholes for the one per cent, investing in public services and reforming the civil service? Well, now you may be onto something.
Cummings has given an interview to the i newspaper, his first since his spectacular departure from Downing Street, in which he repeats his plan to establish a new political party from the cadaver of the Tories after the next election. “The only point of doing it is to do something which is completely different from the other parties,” he says.
