Sunak is ‘stooge’ put in place by Cummings, claims Johnson in Nadine Dorries book

In Nadine Dorries’s book, Boris Johnson also says the Conservatives are ‘drifting into defeat’ under Rishi Sunak. Photograph: Oli Scarff/AFP/Getty

Boris Johnson has said Rishi Sunak is a “stooge” put in place by his former senior adviser Dominic Cummings, according to the former cabinet minister Nadine Dorries.

Johnson said: “I heard that Cummings has said he started to plot to get rid of me in January 2020. The plot was always to get Rishi in. I just couldn’t see it at the time. It’s like this Manchurian candidate, their stooge.”